ISSN:
0894-9468
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Visual anthropology
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 30, No. 3 (2017), p. 177
DDC:
070
Abstract:
Socio-anthropological studies on the city have addressed directly the audiovisual recently. This trend emerges from the awareness that the textual materials usually employed in research too often show their limits, given the complexity of the urban phenomena. The increasing use of audiovisual research raises a crucial question: what is the added value of photography and video, as well as of the many extra textual languages that increasingly are complicating research work? The simple diffusion of electronic text and the use of devices have taught us to manipulate text and images simultaneously, but in the process have changed the methodological approach of social sciences from the definition of questions and research hypotheses to the construction of the empirical basis, and finally the writing and analysis, seen as experimental practices that flow into what we might call an expanded search. Urban studies, having complexity as their main object as well as an undeniable encounter of paradigms and disciplines, have implicitly encouraged and made common the use and testing of audiovisual technology. City Visualscapes is an attempt to focus on those experiences of urban research that privilege languages employing experimental visual practices alongside more traditional research tools.
Note:
Copyright: Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 2017
DOI:
10.1080/08949468.2017.1296284
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2017.1296284
