Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2023
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: FATIMA BETÜL GÜRTEKİN
Danışman: Fatma Korkut
Özet:
This thesis investigates the nature of camera operating practice in multicamera systems from camera operators’ perspectives. To do this, this study consults phenomenology and postphenomenology as theoretical stances. With phenomenological approach, this thesis examines camera operating practice as a technique of the body and accordingly skilled practice which involves skill and expertise.
In this regard, this thesis conducts two staged field study which are autoethnography and ethnography. Autoethnography helps me to collect my instantaneous camera operating experiences with my interpretations, opinions, and feelings. This stage is followed by the ethnographic study involving semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observations and post-observation interviews, to gather my colleagues’ narrations on camera operating practice and their lived bodily experiences of camera operating.
According to the field studies, camera operating practice from phenomenological perspective unfolds in embodiment layers which are embodiment in a system, embodiment with the equipment and embodiment with the picture. These inter-related and inter-dependent embodiment layers are exposed to be interrupted, in which the camera person looks for regaining the embodiment. Both in sustaining and in re-gaining the embodiment process, camera operator employes her skilled practice to generate the intended picture and immerse herself into the flow experience.
As an embodied flow experience, camera operating passes beyond singular manipulation of a product and gains a complex nature. In this regard, complex camera operating is also skilled, co-generative, collective and situated, sociocultural and sociopolitical, and mediated. As presenting this extraordinary nature of the camera operating practice, this thesis proposes a complex operating model and promises implications for theory, methodology and design practice.