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Researching the Visual

Second Edition


December 2012 | 296 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The exciting Second Edition provides an overview of the field of visual research by drawing on the contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, and material culture studies and by demonstrating their potential application for the visual researcher. Researching the Visual first covers traditional themes in visual research along with current trends in the field. It goes on to show how visual research should also embrace the analysis of everyday objects, places, and forms of interactions through its discussion of 2D and 3D visual data and both lived and living visual data. A brand new chapter on virtual visual data adds another dimension to this comprehensive book.

This updated new edition includes fully updated exercises which show students how "low-tech, low-budget" visual research can provide methodologically sophisticated ways of testing and developing cultural theory. The book also addresses the ethical considerations that are relevant to visual researchers.

Generously illustrated with images and diagrams, this new Second Edition is the perfect companion to those doing visual research projects and writing dissertations and theses.

 
A Very Short Introduction: The Scope of Visual Research
 
Ethics in Visual Research
 
Visual Research: The Disciplinary Core
 
Two-Dimensional Visual Data: Photographs and Beyond
 
Three-Dimensional Visual Data
 
Lived Visual Data
 
Living Forms of Visual Data
 
Virtual Visual Data

This book will be recommended as essential reading for the course.
Comprehensive methodological text, will ensure students have the background and understanding they need.

Dr Angela Dickinson
CRIPACC, Hertfordshire University
October 25, 2019

Excellent addition to the reading list. A very good overview of the area with good examples. I hope to use the text to introduce visual research to my students.

Mrs denise Burke Mac Giolla Ri
Humanities , AIT Athlone Institute of Technology
November 19, 2015

This is a very good text on the visual research methods. While PG students may find it useful, UG students need to read a more accessible text first.

Dr Jung Woo Lee
Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Edinburgh University
May 9, 2015

It is a very interesting book for specialized social investigators.
The examples are good, and it includes a quite number of good ideas of how to afront qualitative social investigation based in the analysis of different kind of images: photograhs, existing images, internet, but olso public spaces, body use, etc.
I recomend it to get a new an different idea of "the visual"

Dr Marian Ispizua
Sociology, Universidad del Pams Vasco
February 24, 2015

A very useful book to help students think creatively about their undergrad./postgrad. dissertation research methods.

Dr Nadine Tchelebi
Business Law , Faculty Of Applied Sciences
July 7, 2014

I have enjoyed using this book and I find it very comprehensive in terms of different types of visual data. It has a good practical approach and considers analysis which is something lacking sometimes in texts on visual methods.

Dr Joanne Hill
Faculty of Education and Sport, University of Bedfordshire
May 30, 2014

This textbook is accessible and highly informative in approach. It brings alive the importance of using visual methods as a method of data collection. Highly recommended.

Dr Sal Watt
Psychology Department, Liverpool Hope University
April 18, 2014

This book offers a clear overview of what visual methods are, what they can be used for, and offers many examples along the way. It's on the suggested reading list for my students who are interested in this.

Mr Jeroen Moes
University College Maastricht, Maastricht University
January 22, 2014

Like the Rose text.

Dr Michael Berson
Secondary Education Dept, University of South Florida
August 2, 2013

For my course I was looking for a book that focusses more on photography and journalism. Parts of this book are usable, but most of it serves another public and another goal. But besides that: it is a very good introduction in theoretical traditions on visual research and I will recommend the book to some of my students who are, for their thesis, working on visual research.

Dr Willem Koetsenruijter
Journalism and New Media, Leiden University
May 7, 2013

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