Search Results - subject:"Visual methods"

Looking for Africville - Complementary Visual Constructions of a Contended Space

Spencer, Stephen - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 1, pp. 6-6

This paper explores the historical sources, personal narratives and representations of Africville, an area beside the Bedford Basin near Halifax in Nova Scotia which has been the site of a struggle for social justice and reparation since it was destroyed by the city of Halifax authorities over...

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Ethical Regulation and Visual Methods: Making Visual Research Impossible or Developing Good Practice?

Wiles, Rose; Coffey, Amanda; Robison, Judy; Prosser, Jon - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 1, pp. 8-8

researchers using visual methods that such ethical scrutiny and regulation will place severe limitations on visual research … developments and practice. This paper draws on a qualitative study of social researchers using visual methods in the UK. The study … challenges, while for others it involved \'normalising\' visual methods in ways which delimited the possible ethical dilemmas of …

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Capturing Christmas: The Sensory Potential of Data from Participant Produced Video

Muir, Stewart; Mason, Jennifer - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 1, pp. 5-5

In this paper, we discuss our use of participant-produced digital footage of family Christmases, collected as part of a larger project exploring family backgrounds and family traditions. The audio-visual recording (and subsequent dissemination) of these otherwise difficult-to-access domestic...

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A Video Testimony on Rural Poverty and Social Exclusion

Fahmy, Eldin; Pemberton, Simon - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 1, pp. 2-2

In this paper, we seek to illustrate the potential theoretical and methodological contributions that video research methods can make in advancing social-scientific understanding and informing public debates on social problems. We do so by presenting findings on the experience and impacts of...

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Space, Buildings and the Life Worlds of Home-Based Workers: Towards Better Design

Holliss, Frances - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 2, pp. 24-24

methods, including photography, orthogonal drawing and diagram-making. While these visual methods are commonplace in …. Follow-on research was conducted in London in 2009-11. Originating in architecture, the research employed a number of visual …

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Multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research : Towards a performative approach to the visual

Steyaert, Chris; Marti, Laurent; Michels, Christoph - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 34-53

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is, first, to assess the potential of the visual to enact multiplicity and reflexivity in organizational research, and second, to develop a performative approach to the visual, which offers aesthetic strategies for creating future research accounts in...

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Recent Methodological Opportunities in Online Hypermedia â€“ a Case Study of Photojournalism in Singapore

Heng, Terence - In: Sociological Research Online 16 (2011) 2, pp. 15-15

This methodological paper reviews the recent work done by photojournalists in Singapore who have leveraged on the use of multimedia to create meaning-rich narratives of the social situations they investigate. Using an online multimedia project recently launched by journalists and...

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Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing

Lomax, Helen; Fink, Janet - In: Sociological Research Online 15 (2010) 3, pp. 2-2

Our research is concerned with cultural representations of birth and mothering and, as part of this, we are engaged with debates concerning competing theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of visual images. In particular we are interested in how meanings of an image are...

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Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research

Pauwels, Luc - In: Sociological Methods & Research 38 (2010) 4, pp. 545-581

this article, the author proposes a more encompassing and refined analytical framework for visual methods of research. The …

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