Visual research

Abstract: Chapter 1: Researching with Visual Materials - A Brief Survey An Introductory Survey of 'the Visual' Understanding the Social Effects of Visual Materials Three Criteria for a Critical Visual Methodology Chapter 2: Towards a Critical Visual Methodology The Three Sites of Production, the Image Itself and Its Audiencing The Site of Production The Site of the Image The Site of Audiencing Chapter 3: How to Use This Book Reading This Book Selectively on the Basis of Sites and Modalities Reading This Book Selectively on the Basis of Having Found Some Images Why you Should Also Read Books Other Than This One How Each Chapter Works A Quick Word on Finding Your Images Another Quick Word, on Referencing and Reproducing Your Images Chapter 4: 'The Good Eye': Looking at Pictures Using Compositional Interpretation Compositional Interpretation: An Introduction Doing Compositional Interpretation: Technologies and the Production of the Image Doing compositional interpretation: The compositionality of the Image Itself Compositional Interpretation: An Assessment Chapter 5: Content Analysis: Counting What You (Think You) See Content Analysis: An Introduction Four Steps to Content Analysis Content Analysis: An Assessment Chapter 6: Semiology: Laying Bare the Prejudices beneath the Smooth Surface of the Beautiful Semiology: An Introduction Choosing Images for a Semiological Study The Sign and its Meaning-Making Processes in Mainstream Semiology Making Meaning Socially: Social Semiotics Semiology: An Assessment Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption Psychoanalysis and Visuality: An Introduction A Longer Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Visuality: Subjectivity, Sexuality and the Unconscious How is Sexual Difference Visual 1: Watching Movies with Laura Mulvey How is Sexual Difference Visual 2: From the Fetish to Masquerade From the Voyeuristic Gaze to the Lacanian Gaze: Other Ways of Seeing From the Disciplines of Subjection to the Possibilities of Fantasy Queer Looks Reflexivity Psychoanalysis and Visuality: An Assessment Chapter 8: Discourse Analysis: Text, Intertextuality, Context Discourse and Visual Culture: An Introduction An Introduction to Discourse Analysis I and Discourse Analysis II Finding Your Sources for a Discourse Analysis I Discourse Analysis I: The Production and Rhetorical Organization of Discourse Discourse Analysis I And Reflexivity Discourse Analysis I: An Assessment Chapter 9: Discourse Analysis II: Institutions and Ways of Seeing Another Introduction to Discourse and Visual Culture Finding Your Sources for Discourse Analysis II The Apparatus of the Gallery and the Museum The Technologies of the Gallery and Museum The Visitor Discourse Analysis II: An Assessment Chapter 10: To Audience Studies and Beyond: Ethnographies of Television Audiences, Fans and Users Audience Studies: An Introduction Audiences, Fans and Users Audience Studies Researching Audiences and Fans Ethnographies of Visual Objects Ethnographic Studies of Audiencing: An Assessment Chapter 11: Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: Photo-Documentation, Photo-Elicitation and Photo-Essays Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: An Introduction Photo-Documentation Photo-Elicitation Photo-Essays Making Photographs as Part of a Research Project: An Assessment Chapter 12: Ethics and Visual Research Methods An Introduction to Research Ethics and Visual Materials Consent, Anonymity, Copyright Consent Anonymity Copyright Conclusions: Ethics, Visual Research and Contemporary Visual Culture Chapter 13: Visual Methodologies: A Review Introduction Sites, Modalities and Methods Mixing Methods Useful Reading on Various Visual Materials List of Key Terms

Abstract: 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

Abstract: PART ONE: THINKING ABOUT VISUAL RESEARCH The Visual in Ethnography Photography, Video, Cultures and Individuals Planning and Practising 'Visual Methods' Appropriate Uses and Ethical Issues PART TWO: PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE Photography in Ethnographic Research Video in Ethnographic Research Classifying and Interpreting Photographic and Video Materials PART THREE: VISUAL IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES Ethnographic Photography and Printed Text Video in Ethnographic Representation Ethnographic Hypermedia Representation

Abstract: David E. Gray has produced a 4th edition of his successful textbook Doing Research in the Real World. This useful handbook for social science researchers includes the addition of entirely new chapters on Visual Research Methods, Digital Research Methods and Getting Started Using NVIVO, along with other chapters updated to reflect developments in digital research tools. This has been done whilst also retaining a comprehensive overview of research methods in the social sciences. The purpose of this book remains to assist researchers and their supervisors in navigating the complex decisions involved in the design and execution of research projects and does this in a clear and approachable way.