Visual methods in social research
By: Marcus Banks.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Visual sociology.; Visual anthropology.; Photography in the social sciences.; Social sciences -- Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Reading pictures; title: 1.1 The trouble with pictures; title: 1.2 An introductory example; title: 1.3 Unnatural vision; title: 1.4 Reading narratives; title: 2 Encountering the visual; title: 2.1 On television; title: 2.2 Visual forms produced I: representations of society; title: 2.2.1 Interpreting Forest of Bliss; title: 2.2.2 Still and moving images; title: 2.3 Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge; title: 2.3.1 Diagrams of Nuer lineages; title: 2.3.2 Diagrams of Indian caste; title: 2.4 Visual forms encountered; title: 2.4.1 Encountering indigenous media; title: 2.4.2 The image as evidence; title: 2.5 'Us' and 'them'?; title: 3 Material vision; title: 3.1 Object and representation; title: 3.2 The materiality of visual forms; title: 3.2.1 Displaying family photographs; title: 3.3 Exchanged goods; title: 3.3.1 Market exchange; title: 3.4 Size matters; title: 3.5 Transformations: digitization and computer-based media; title: 3.5.1 Digital manipulation; title: 3.5.2 Digital pornography: constraining the virtual; title: 3.5.3 Digital pornography: exchange and circulation; title: 4 Research strategies; title: 4.1 Silk thread to plastic bags; title: 4.2 Researching image use and production in social contexts; title: 4.3 Watching television; title: 4.3.1 Soap opera in India and Egypt; title: 4.3.2 Television as a social presence; title: 4.4 Doing things with photographs and films; title: 4.4.1 Photo-elicitation with archival images; title: 4.4.2 Photo-elicitation with contemporary images; title: 4.4.3 Learning from photo-elicitation; title: 4.4.4 Film-elicitation; title: 4.5 Working with archival material; title: 4.5.1 Photographic archives and picture libraries; title: 4.5.2 Film archives; title: 5 Making images; title: 5.1 Observing; title: 5.2 Creating images for research; title: 5.3 Documentation; title: 5.3.1 Documentary exploration; title: 5.3.2 Documentary control; title: 5.4 Collaborative projects; title: 5.5 Indigenous media collaborations; title: 5.5.1 Collaborative after-effects; title: 5.6 Ethics; title: 5.6.1 Permissions; title: 5.6.2 Returning images; title: 6 Presenting research results; title: 6.1 Audiences; title: 6.2 Presenting photographs ,; title: 6.2.1 The photographic essay; title: 6.3 Presenting ethnographic and other films; title: 6.3.1 Study guides and other contextualization; title: 6.4 Databases and digital images; title: 6.4.1 Can computers see?; title: 6.4.2 The HADDON Catalogue; title: 6.5 Multimedia projects; title: 6.5.1 Interacting with the Yanomamo; title: 6.6 Copyright; title: 7 Perspectives on visual research; title: 7.1 The state of visual research; title: 7.2 The place of visual research; title: 7.3 The nature of visual research; title: Further resources; title: Bibliography; title: Filmography; title: Index.