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Bull, C. Michael; Cobussen, Marcel

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“…Soundscapes as a method have been defined as ‘an acoustic environment as perceived or experienced and/or understood by a person or people in context’ (Fiebig and Schulte-Fortkamp, 2020: 255). Anthropologists have long used such sound methods (Stoller, 1989), or what some term ‘sonic methodologies’ (Bull and Cobbussen, 2020) to listen to everyday and investigate how sounds are listened to, responded to and made (Boudreault-Fournier, 2020). By investigating what people hear everyday anthropologists such as Feld have learnt about knowing and being in the world, what he terms ‘acoustemology’, ‘sound is central to making sense, to knowing, to experiential truth’ (Feld, 1996: 97).…”

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Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Kingston

2023

Qualitative Research

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Audio recording interviews, focus groups, and naturally occurring interactions have been utilised by social researchers for decades. Yet, the use of audio recordings as a tool to elicit participant responses has received less attention in social science research. This is despite heightened interest in non-traditional techniques such as the use of visual methodologies, and arts-based methods. In this article, I describe how I advanced a known method, vignettes, into an audio narrative to explore perceptions of sex work. This article reports on the methodological rationale for the novel use of audio vignettes, and the capacity they have for memory retrieval, eliciting reflections on lived experiences, and for providing richer attitudinal data. By drawing on ‘accessibility theory’, this article argues that audio vignettes are a powerful elicitor of attitudes. Furthermore, I claim that audio methods as I define them, can enhance the social scientists’ toolkit and that, what I term ‘audio sociology’ needs further development.

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Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Kingston

2023

Qualitative Research

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“…Based on the influential yet highly debated concept of soundscape, introduced by Canadian composer Murray Schafer (1977, 1994), an entire field of study, soundscape studies (Järviluoma & Wagstaff, 2002), focusing on the connection between human beings and their sounding environments has emerged. While various techniques of listening in medicine are mentioned in a recent handbook of sonic methodologies (Bull & Cobussen, 2021), listening as methodology in health research is not brought to light. Yet, listening attentively to patients’ stories is as essential for healing as auscultating their hearts.…”

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The Sonic Meanings of the Life and Death of My Disabled Brother: Listening as a Method for Qualitative Research

Ikonen

2022

Qual Health Res

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Long neglected listening is an underdeveloped element in western epistemology in general and in qualitative research in particular. However, recent developments in philosophy, sound art, anthropology, and qualitative research open promising pathways for mastering listening as a method and metaphor of inquiry also in health research, where understanding multiple layers of emotionally challenging experiences is crucial, yet often elusive. Through a sonic analysis of autobiographical data about life, death, and my disabled brother, I will try to demonstrate how paying attention to listening and sounds in research can add evolving layers of meaning to the data gathering and analyzing processes. Ultimately, such an analysis provides insights into a sibling’s role as a caregiver by revealing mechanisms of nonconscious emotional coping and also into the acts of a disabled sibling as a teacher of subtle ways of listening.

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Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work

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