After videographic criticism, can scholarship ever be the same again?
Videographic criticism refers to the audiovisual study of audiovisual and screen media and online culture. The videographic critic uses editing software to analyse and remix digital files of film, television series, games, screen recordings, etc., typically communicating research results in the form of video essays in online journals such as (opens in a new window)[in]Transition. As a medium of academic practice, videographic scholarship has in recent years become increasingly mainstream and the growth in the practice has been accompanied by debate about the affordances, potentials and norms of the medium. Practitioners have debated whether videographic criticism should transpose the ‘traditional’ protocols of prose scholarship to the audiovisual, or whether videographic criticism represents (as one respected practitioner put it) an ‘ontologically new’ scholarly form. In this presentation, I introduce some of the more experimental modes of videographic criticism and ask what implications they have for the practice and understanding of scholarship as such.