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The chapter provides an overview of both video-ethnography and video-reflexive ethnography. It relates these two orientations as providing complementary perspectives on socio-organizational complexity, and on enabling learning about that complexity. The first section provides background to the video-ethnographic and video-reflexive endeavours that have been published in the last decade or so. The second section provides two examples; one from the domain of gall bladder surgery, and one from ward-based infection control. The chapter’s discussion offers some generalisations and delves into the links between visuality, complexity and pedagogy, before concluding with the assertion that visualization will grow in scholarly significance given the rising emphasis in contemporary civilizations on increasingly attuned, more multimodal, and more flexible ways of seeing and doing.
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Iedema, R., Bezemer, J. (2021). Video-Ethnography and Video-Reflexive Ethnography: Investigating and Expanding Learning About Complex Realities. In: Grosjean, S., Matte, F. (eds) Organizational Video-Ethnography Revisited. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65551-8_2
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