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020 _a9781446269749 (hardback)
020 _a1446269744 (hardback)
020 _a9781446269756 (paperback)
020 _a1446269752 (paperback)
082 0 4 _a300.72
100 1 _aBanks, Marcus,
245 1 0 _aVisual methods in social research /
250 _a2nd edition.
260 _bSage Publications Ltd
_c2011
300 _axiii, 189 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
500 _aPrevious edition: 2001.
505 0 _aMachine generated contents note: 1.1.The trouble with pictures -- 1.2.An introductory example -- 1.3.Unnatural vision -- 1.4.Reading narratives -- 1.4.1.Formal readings -- 1.5.Planning a research project with visual methods -- 2.1.On television -- 2.2.Visual forms produced I: representations of society -- 2.2.1.Interpreting Forest of Bliss -- 2.2.2.Still and moving images -- 2.3.Visual forms produced II: representations of knowledge -- 2.3.1.Visualization -- 2.3.2.Networks -- 2.3.3.Diagrams of Nuer lineages -- 2.4.Visual forms encountered -- 2.4.1.Encountering 'indigenous' media -- 2.4.2.The image as evidence -- 2.5.'Us' and 'them'? -- 3.1.Object and representation -- 3.2.The materiality of visual forms -- 3.2.1.Displaying family photographs -- 3.3.Exchanged goods -- 3.3.1.Market exchange -- 3.4.Size matters -- 3.5.Transformations: digitization and computer-based media -- 3.5.1.Digital manipulation -- 3.5.2.Digital pornography: constraining the virtual --
505 0 _aNote continued: 3.5.3.Digital pornography: exchange and circulation -- 4.1.Silk thread to plastic bags -- 4.2.Researching image use and production in social contexts -- 4.3.Watching television -- 4.3.1.Soap opera in India and Egypt -- 4.3.2.Television as a social presence -- 4.4.Doing things with photographs and films -- 4.4.1.Photo-elicitation with archival images -- 4.4.2.Photo-elicitation with contemporary images -- 4.4.3.Learning from photo-elicitation -- 4.4.4.Film-elicitation -- 4.5.Working with archival material -- 4.5.1.Photographic archives and picture libraries -- 4.5.2.Film archives -- 5.1.Observing -- 5.2.Creating images for research -- 5.3.Documentation -- 5.3.1.A ladder climbed then discarded -- 5.3.2.Documentary exploration -- 5.3.3.Documentary control -- 5.4.Collaborative projects -- 5.5.Indigenous media collaborations -- 5.5.1.Collaborative after-effects -- 5.6.Ethics and visual research -- 5.6.1.Ethical review -- 5.6.2.Permissions --
505 0 _aNote continued: 5.7.Returning images -- 6.1.Audiences -- 6.2.Presenting photographs -- 6.2.1.The photographic essay -- 6.3.Presenting ethnographic and other films -- 6.3.1.Study guides and other contextualization -- 6.4.Databases and digital images -- 6.4.1.Can computers see? -- 6.5.Multimedia projects -- 6.5.1.Interacting with the Yanomamo -- 6.6.Copyright -- 7.1.The state of visual research -- 7.2.The place of visual research -- 7.3.The nature of visual research.
520 _a"Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches."--Back cover.
650 0 _aVisual sociology.
650 0 _aVisual anthropology.
650 0 _aPhotography in the social sciences.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
650 0 _aSocial sciences
650 7 _aEmpirische Sozialforschung.
650 7 _aVisuelle Medien.
650 7 _aVisuelle Wahrnehmung.
650 7 _aEthnologische Fotografie.
650 7 _aBildanalyse.
650 7 _aMethodologie.
700 1 _aZeitlyn, David,
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