[Air-L] New Article on Digital Methods: Shared screens, shared lives: theorizing screencapture as method in a postdigital age

[Garg, Rabani]

Sharing our latest paper, in which Dr. Amy Stornaiuolo<https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-stornaiuolo-28012813/> and I offer three approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2025.2502508

Abstract: This paper discusses critical and participatory approaches to screencapture to account for the layered, embodied, and mobile ways people work with/across screens in a postdigital era. While screencapture methods have been a mainstay of multimodal, video-based research in education, there has been less theorizing of screens as active participants in broader sociotechnical assemblages. In this paper, we theorize screencapture from a sociomaterial lens that frames all activity as comprised of human and technological actors acting as dynamic participants in sociotechnical systems. We propose three approaches to screencapture – self-generated screencapture video, researcher-generated screencapture, and elicited screencapture – as a heuristic for researchers to look at and not through screens. Through three case study examples of each approach to screencapture, we trace five critical considerations: ethics, positionality, ephemerality, layering, and co-construction. These critical considerations emerge differently across the three approaches to screencapture, helping researchers challenge extractive or voyeuristic procedures for recording screens in educational research.

Shared screens, shared lives: theorizing screencapture as method in a postdigital age
Amy Stornaiuolo<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Stornaiuolo%2C+Amy> & Rabani Garg<https://www.tandfonline.com/author/Garg%2C+Rabani>






Rabani Garg, M.S.Ed
Ph.D. Candidate, Literacy Studies | Graduate School of Education
Doctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/center-for-advanced-research-in-global-communication/about>, 2023-24
University of Pennsylvania