Professional and Transparent Vision
Professional and Transparent Vision

Summary/Abstract: Chuck Goodwin has long been recognized, and rightly so, for his major role in establishing video analysis for research in Conversation Analysis (CA), and for developing creative ways to present extracts and screen shots from video recordings. In the early 1970s, when portable video cameras and recorders became available at reasonable cost, Harvey Sacks and some of his students at UC, Irvine (particularly Blaine Roberts, whose fellow students dubbed him “Captain Video”), explored the audio-visual production of ordinary interaction. Sacks was particularly interested in using video, not only to supplement the analysis of turn-taking and sequential analysis, which by then was on solid footing, but also to discover phenomena that otherwise were not apparent in audio recordings and transcripts.

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