Hubert Knoblauch

The Editors: Hubert Knoblauch is Professor of Sociology at the Technical University Berlin. Bernt Schnettler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bayreuth. Both are conducting research on interaction, communicative genres and social forms and have build up laboratories of video-analysis. Jürgen Raab is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz and President of the German Sociological Association. They have developed and applied an original approach to visual data called Sociological Hermeneutics.