Visual methods in social research by Banks, Marcus instant download

Visual methods in social research by Banks, Marcus instant download

xvi, 201 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index, Machine generated contents note: 1 Reading pictures -- 1.1 The trouble with pictures -- 1.2 An introductory example -- 1.3 Unnatural vision -- 1.4 Reading narratives -- 2 Encountering the visual -- 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 Diagrams of Nuer lineages -- 2.3.2 Diagrams of Indian caste -- 2.4 Visual forms encountered -- 2.4.1 Encountering indigenous media -- 2.4.2 The image as evidence -- 2.5 'Us' and 'them'? -- 3 Material vision -- 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 -- 3.5.3 Digital pornography: exchange and circulation -- 4 Research strategies -- 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 Making images -- 5.1 Observing -- 5.2 Creating images for research -- 5.3 Documentation -- 5.3.1 Documentary exploration -- 5.3.2 Documentary control -- 5.4 Collaborative projects -- 5.5 Indigenous media collaborations -- 5.5.1 Collaborative after-effects -- 5.6 Ethics -- 5.6.1 Permissions -- 5.6.2 Returning images -- 6 Presenting research results…