Visual Research at the Crossroads

Autor: John Grady
Rok vydání: 2008
Předmět:
visual data
graphic arts
photo elicitation
Forschungsansatz
Theorieanwendung
best practice
research approach
video
theory application
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
basic research
Fotografie
Bild
communicating research findings
lcsh:Social sciences (General)
Datengewinnung
theory
Social sciences
sociology
anthropology

Sozialforschung
visualization
interpretation
Sozialwissenschaften
Soziologie

Forschung
research
anwendungsorientiert
Grafik
methodology
Methodologie
data documentation
photography
data capture
visual methods
Research Design
applied research
video data
picture
ddc:300
lcsh:H1-99
Datendokumentation
Visualisierung
Theorie
visuelle Verfahren
visuelle Daten
Kommunikation von Forschungsergebnissen
Foto-Elizitierung
Videodaten
métodos visuales
fotografía
datos visuales
metodología
comunicar resultados de la investigación
foto-elicitación
social research
Grundlagenforschung
Zdroj: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Vol 9, Iss 3 (2008)
Popis: The author argues that visual methods are at the crossroads. They can remain in a niche or move into the mainstream by also addressing all people using visual materials. In the social sciences, visual methods encompass photography, video, and graphic representations. With respect to the visual, one has to note that all interpretations that are ontologically dependent on photography require more interpretation. "Looking at" means "being framed by," and this means also the picture maker who is also considered to be a viewer. For the social sciences, pictures provide us with personal insights as well as with a personal record of spatial and social relationships. On this basis one may raise questions like "how pattern variations occur over time?"; "how are social processes organized?", or "what is the role of emotion in social life?" These are issues, the author continues, to which visual data can contribute. It may be added that methodological discussion should, however, besides the areas of visual data generation, analysis and interpretation also include solutions for the problem of communicating research findings. Some of these questions can be approached via controlled photo-observation, photo-elicitation techniques and imagery provided by the subjects themselves. Finally, the author turns to the question of what remains to be done? Here, he delineates three main areas: (1) evaluating the theoretical and conceptual basis of visual research; (2) creating public databases for the development and testing of theories; (3) defining "best practices" for visual research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0803384
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Vol 9, No 3 (2008): Visual Methods
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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