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
