TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcription Tales or Let Not Love's Labour Be Lost
AU - Downs, Yvonne
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - Drawing heavily on my MA dissertation but influenced by subsequent transcription experience, I relate how a technical problem in the recording of an interview necessitated deliberations on the nature and purpose of transcription that continue to have repercussions for my transcription practice and, furthermore, for my understanding of research as praxis. I suggest that transcription is a valueladen, ethical as well as a technical undertaking, and that it brings the tension between practical considerations and methodological fidelity into sharp focus. I also highlight the way in which transcripts themselves are simultaneously more and less than they seem. Furthermore, in taking a storied approach to these issues, I provide the reader with clues to my methodological allegiances and my conceptualization of transcription as comprising a set of interpretative, meaningmaking practices.
AB - Drawing heavily on my MA dissertation but influenced by subsequent transcription experience, I relate how a technical problem in the recording of an interview necessitated deliberations on the nature and purpose of transcription that continue to have repercussions for my transcription practice and, furthermore, for my understanding of research as praxis. I suggest that transcription is a valueladen, ethical as well as a technical undertaking, and that it brings the tension between practical considerations and methodological fidelity into sharp focus. I also highlight the way in which transcripts themselves are simultaneously more and less than they seem. Furthermore, in taking a storied approach to these issues, I provide the reader with clues to my methodological allegiances and my conceptualization of transcription as comprising a set of interpretative, meaningmaking practices.
KW - Ethics
KW - Interpretative Practices
KW - Methodology
KW - Praxis
KW - Research Values
KW - Technical Competence
KW - Transcription
KW - Validity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77951525173&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17437271003597600
DO - 10.1080/17437271003597600
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951525173
VL - 33
SP - 101
EP - 112
JO - International Journal of Research and Method in Education
JF - International Journal of Research and Method in Education
SN - 1743-727X
IS - 1
ER -