Visual Methods in Social Research
Second Edition
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The Second Edition of this popular text confirms the book’s status as an important forerunner in the field of visual methods.
Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.
This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.
This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.
Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.
This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.
This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.
Contents
READING PICTURES
- The trouble with pictures
- An introductory example
- Unnatural vision
- Reading narratives
- Formal readings
- Planning a research project with visual methods
ENCOUNTERING THE VISUAL
- On Television
- Visual forms produced I: representations of society
- Interpreting Forest of Bliss
- Still and moving images
- Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge
- Visualisation
- Networks
- Diagrams of Nuer lineages
- Visual forms encountered
- Encountering 'indigenous' media
- The image as evidence
- 'Us' and 'them'?
MATERIAL VISION
- Object and representation
- The materiality of visual forms
- Displaying family photographs
- Exchanged goods
- Market exchange
- Size matters
- Transformations: digitisation and computer-based media
- Digital manipulation
- Digital pornography: constraining the virtual
- Digital pornography: exchange and circulation
RESEARCH STRATEGIES
- Silk thread to plastic bags
- Researching image use and production in social contexts
- Watching television
- Soap opera in India and Egypt
- Television as social presence
- Doing things with photographs and films
- Photo-elicitation with archival images
- Photo-elicitation with contemporary images
- Learning from photo-elicitation
- Film-elicitation
- Working with archival material
- Photographic archives and picture libraries
- Film archives
MAKING IMAGES
- Observing
- Creating images for research
- Documentation
- A ladder climbed then discarded
- Documentary exploration
- Documentary control
- Collaborative projects
- Indigenous media collaborations
- Collaborative after effects
- Ethics and visual research
- Ethical review
- Permissions
- Returning images
PRESENTING RESEARCH RESULTS
- Audiences
- Presenting photographs
- The photographic essay
- Presenting ethnographic and other films
- Study guides and other contextualisation
- Databases and digital images
- Can computer see?
- Multimedia projects
- Interacting with Yanomamo
- Copyright
PERSPECTIVES ON VISUAL RESEARCH
- The state of visual research
- The place of visual research
- The nature of visual research
Additional materials
Description
The Second Edition of this popular text confirms the book’s status as an important forerunner in the field of visual methods.
Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.
This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.
This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.
Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.
This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.
This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.
Contents
READING PICTURES
- The trouble with pictures
- An introductory example
- Unnatural vision
- Reading narratives
- Formal readings
- Planning a research project with visual methods
ENCOUNTERING THE VISUAL
- On Television
- Visual forms produced I: representations of society
- Interpreting Forest of Bliss
- Still and moving images
- Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge
- Visualisation
- Networks
- Diagrams of Nuer lineages
- Visual forms encountered
- Encountering 'indigenous' media
- The image as evidence
- 'Us' and 'them'?
MATERIAL VISION
- Object and representation
- The materiality of visual forms
- Displaying family photographs
- Exchanged goods
- Market exchange
- Size matters
- Transformations: digitisation and computer-based media
- Digital manipulation
- Digital pornography: constraining the virtual
- Digital pornography: exchange and circulation
RESEARCH STRATEGIES
- Silk thread to plastic bags
- Researching image use and production in social contexts
- Watching television
- Soap opera in India and Egypt
- Television as social presence
- Doing things with photographs and films
- Photo-elicitation with archival images
- Photo-elicitation with contemporary images
- Learning from photo-elicitation
- Film-elicitation
- Working with archival material
- Photographic archives and picture libraries
- Film archives
MAKING IMAGES
- Observing
- Creating images for research
- Documentation
- A ladder climbed then discarded
- Documentary exploration
- Documentary control
- Collaborative projects
- Indigenous media collaborations
- Collaborative after effects
- Ethics and visual research
- Ethical review
- Permissions
- Returning images
PRESENTING RESEARCH RESULTS
- Audiences
- Presenting photographs
- The photographic essay
- Presenting ethnographic and other films
- Study guides and other contextualisation
- Databases and digital images
- Can computer see?
- Multimedia projects
- Interacting with Yanomamo
- Copyright
PERSPECTIVES ON VISUAL RESEARCH
- The state of visual research
- The place of visual research
- The nature of visual research
Additional materials
Reviews
June 2015 | 208 pages | Sage UK
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The Second Edition of this popular text confirms the book’s status as an important forerunner in the field of visual methods.
Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.
This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.
This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.
Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.
This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives.
This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.
Table Of Contents:
- READING PICTURES
- The trouble with pictures
- An introductory example
- Unnatural vision
- Reading narratives
- Formal readings
- Planning a research project with visual methods
- ENCOUNTERING THE VISUAL
- On Television
- Visual forms produced I: representations of society
- Interpreting Forest of Bliss
- Still and moving images
- Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge
- Visualisation
- Networks
- Diagrams of Nuer lineages
- Visual forms encountered
- Encountering 'indigenous' media
- The image as evidence
- 'Us' and 'them'?
- MATERIAL VISION
- Object and representation
- The materiality of visual forms
- Displaying family photographs
- Exchanged goods
- Market exchange
- Size matters
- Transformations: digitisation and computer-based media
- Digital manipulation
- Digital pornography: constraining the virtual
- Digital pornography: exchange and circulation
- RESEARCH STRATEGIES
- Silk thread to plastic bags
- Researching image use and production in social contexts
- Watching television
- Soap opera in India and Egypt
- Television as social presence
- Doing things with photographs and films
- Photo-elicitation with archival images
- Photo-elicitation with contemporary images
- Learning from photo-elicitation
- Film-elicitation
- Working with archival material
- Photographic archives and picture libraries
- Film archives
- MAKING IMAGES
- Observing
- Creating images for research
- Documentation
- A ladder climbed then discarded
- Documentary exploration
- Documentary control
- Collaborative projects
- Indigenous media collaborations
- Collaborative after effects
- Ethics and visual research
- Ethical review
- Permissions
- Returning images
- PRESENTING RESEARCH RESULTS
- Audiences
- Presenting photographs
- The photographic essay
- Presenting ethnographic and other films
- Study guides and other contextualisation
- Databases and digital images
- Can computer see?
- Multimedia projects
- Interacting with Yanomamo
- Copyright
- PERSPECTIVES ON VISUAL RESEARCH
- The state of visual research
- The place of visual research
- The nature of visual research
Recent Product Reviews:
This continues to be a key text for work with and on the visual. Highly recommended and not to be missed by anybody wanting to understand what images mean, both practically and theoretically.
Arnd Schneider, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
A classic text for undergraduates and practitioners interested in using visual materials in social research. The emphasis on theory and practice makes it an enduring work for anyone approaching visual sociology or visual anthropology.
John Aitken, JOMEC, UClan
This excellent new edition provides a clearly structured and accessible introduction to the research potential of the visual, as both object of study and method. It is richly illustrated with examples, from archival photographs and ethnographic films to new social media, which demonstrate how a critical and reflexive visual sensibility can expand the social research imagination.
Darren Newbury, Professor of Photographic History, University of Brighton
This revised edition of Visual Methods in Social Research builds on earlier strengths with a series of welcome and contemporary updates. Well structured, engagingly written and full of helpful methodological scaffolding, this enjoyable guide will be of great help to scholars and students committed to developing their visual literacy.
Mark Turin, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
The book sets out to provide views from an anthropological base, in relation to the visual, that would be useful for researchers across diverse disciplines such as sociology, education, health, and cultural geography. The first edition of Visual Methods in Social Research was presented to readers where the visual path was less travelled, now it has become a path far more travelled, across disciplines and approaches. For this reason, a second edition was timely and I am sure that it will provide a useful map and guide for students, researchers and practitioners who incorporate visual materials in their projects. ????????????????????? ???????????
William G Feighery, Visual Methodologies