Visual Analysis. New Developments in the Interpretative Analysis of Video and Photography

While society's use, production and transmission of visual forms of

communication have grown, the application of visual research methods has also

become increasingly widespread throughout the social sciences...

Accepted as a subjective and reflexive form of qualitative data

production, methods based on photography and video are now entrenched in

major fields of inquiry, including sociology, health and nursing studies,

educational research, criminology, social and cultural geography, media and

cultural studies, discursive and social psychology, management and organisation

studies, political science and policy analysis. To the degree that visual data are

becoming both the subject matter and the methodology of social scientific inquiry,

the question as to how we can approach this kind of data in a scientific, analytic

or theoretical manner gains increasing importance.

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http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1170/2593

by

Hubert Knoblauch, Alejandro Baer, Eric Laurier,

Sabine Petschke & Bernt Schnettler

FQS Volume 9, No. 3, Art. 14

September 2008