ISBN:
0761958452
,
0761958460
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 242 p)
,
ill
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Introducing Qualitative Methods
Parallel Title:
Print version Researching the Visual : Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry
DDC:
300.72
Keywords:
Visual sociology Research
Abstract:
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the entire field of visual research, this book reviews the contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and material culture studies and demonstrates their potential application for the visual researcher. The first part of the book deals with the more traditional themes in visual research. These center on the use of photographic images in ethnographic enquiry and the cultural interpretation of texts such as advertisements. It then goes on to show how visual research should also embrace the analysis of e
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Exercises and Projects; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1Introduction: Putting Visual Data into Focus; 2 Current Trends in Visual Research: a Conceptual Review; 3 Two-dimensional Visual Data: Images, Signs and Representations; 4 Three-dimensional Visual Data: Settings, Objects and Traces; 5 Lived Visual Data: the Built Environment and its Uses; 6 Living Forms of Visual Data: Bodies, Identities and Interaction; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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