In this article, the authors offer ‘timelapse’—removing frames from video footage to effectively ‘speed up’ visual activity—as an experimental method for engaging in the practice of seeing the emergence and contingency of activity across different timescales and in collaboration with participants. Building on previous calls to zoom up and out in analysis in order to understand the cumulative impact of moments, events, and episodes across different timescales, this article frames timelapse video as a means of visually representing activity in a way that emphasizes not only its multimodal dimensions but its temporal ones. The authors explicate how the ‘zoomed out’ temporal perspective of timelapse video offers two intertwined analytic affordances in qualitative research: (1) insight into how activity is coordinated across micro-, meso-, and macro-timescales, and (2) insight into how activity is emergent from and contingent upon macrosocial factors. They argue that these analytic affordances of timelapse are particularly well suited to being collaboratively realized alongside participants, illustrating these participatory affordances through data collected from a two-year study about literacy and arts-based practices in a US public high school. This article suggests that the participatory practice of seeing what circulates across different scales of time in timelapse video not only highlights the contingency and partiality inherent in all visual representations, thus unsettling notions of video as depicting ‘reality’ or ‘truth’, but also emphasizes the importance of multiscalar perspective taking for considering how macrosocial dimensions of meaning unfold across longer timescales and in relation to micro-interactional ones.

在这篇文章中，作者提供了“游戏中时光倒流”——从视频片段中移除帧以有效地“加速”视觉活动——作为一种实验方法，用于观察不同时间尺度的活动的出现和偶然性，并与参与者合作. 在之前的呼吁的基础上，放大和缩小分析以了解不同时间尺度上的时刻、事件和剧集的累积影响，本文将延时视频作为一种视觉呈现活动的方式，这种方式不仅强调其多模态维度，但它的时间维度。作者解释了延时视频的“缩小”时间视角如何在定性研究中提供两个相互交织的分析启示：（1）洞察活动如何在微观、中观、和宏观时间尺度，以及 (2) 洞察活动如何从宏观社会因素中产生并取决于宏观社会因素。他们认为，这些游戏中时光倒流的分析性启示特别适合与参与者一起合作实现，通过从一项为期两年的关于美国公立高中读写和艺术实践的研究中收集的数据来说明这些参与性启示。这篇文章表明，在延时视频中查看跨越不同时间尺度的内容的参与性实践不仅突出了所有视觉表现中固有的偶然性和偏颇性，从而使视频描绘“现实”或“真相”的观念令人不安，