Abstract

Part I. Remodelling Visual Social Science: 1. Prologue and outline: (re)framing visual social science? 2. An integrated framework for conducting and assessing visual social research Part II. The Visual Researcher as Collector and Interpreter: 3. Researching 'found' or 'pre-existing' visual materials 4. A visual and multimodal model for analyzing online environments Part III. The Visual Researcher as Producer, Facilitator and Communicator: 5. The mimetic mode: from exploratory to systematic visual data production 6. Visual elicitation techniques, respondent-generated image production and 'participatory' visual activism 7. The 'visual essay' as a scholarly format: art meets (social) science? 8. Social scientific filmmaking and multimedia production: key features and debates Part IV. Applications/Case Studies: 9. Family photography as a social practice: from the analogue to the digital networked world 10. A visual study of corporate culture: the workplace as metaphor 11. Health communication in South Africa: a visual study of posters, billboards and grassroots media Part V. Visual Research in a Wider Perspective: 12. Ethics of visual research in the offline and online world 13. A meta-disciplinary framework for producing and assessing visual representations 14. Advancing visual research: pending issues and future directions.

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