Book Chapter10.1007/978-3-030-54510-9_2
Methodologies of Visual Sociology
Dennis Zuev,Gary Bratchford +1 more
- 01 Jan 2020
- pp 23-51
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TL;DR: In this article, a selection of methods, practical issues and techniques, which have been used by visual sociologists, are reviewed, and a vignette on engaging with the big data in visual research is presented.
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Abstract: In this chapter we review a selection of methods, practical issues and techniques, which have been used by visual sociologists. By foregrounding traditional methods, pioneered by a prolific generation of visual sociologists and visual culture theorists we build with, and importantly from, these ideas to form the basis of a visual sociology cognizant of the new hyper-visual world in which we participate. We provide a synthesis of visual methodology developments and summarize techniques on the analysis of images and ethics of visual research. The chapter ends with a vignette on engaging with the big data in visual research.
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