Sociology And Visual Representation

Author : Elizabeth Chaplin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134906056
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology and Visual Representation written by Elizabeth Chaplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Luc Pauwels
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131636822X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reframing Visual Social Science written by Luc Pauwels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science provides a well-balanced, critical-constructive and systematic overview of existing and emerging modes of visual social and cultural research. The book includes integrated models and conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches to scrutinizing existing imagery and multimodal phenomena, a systematic presentation of more active ways and formats of visual scholarly production and communication, and a number of case studies which exemplify the broad fields of application. Finally, visual social research is situated within a wider perspective by addressing the issue of ethics; by presenting a generic approach to producing, selecting and using visual representations; and through discussing the specific challenges and opportunities of a 'more visual' social science.

Author : Kathryn Henderson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262262996
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Line and On Paper written by Kathryn Henderson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political support, and power. Henderson's analysis of the collective nature of knowledge in technical design work is based on her participant observation of practices in two industrial settings. In one she follows the evolution of a turbine engine package from design to production, and in the other she examines the development of an innovative surgical tool. In both cases she describes the messy realities of design practice, including the mixed use of the worlds of paper and computer graphics. One of the goals of the book is to lay a practice-informed groundwork for the creation of more usable computer tools. Henderson also explores the relationship between the historical development of engineering as a profession and the standardization of engineering knowledge, and then addresses the question: Just what is high technology, and how does its affect the extent to which people will allow their working habits to be disrupted and restructured? Finally, to help explain why visual representations are so powerful, Henderson develops the concept of "metaindexicality"—the ability of a visual representation, used interactively, to combine many diverse levels of knowledge and thus to serve as a meeting ground (and sometimes battleground) for many types of workers.

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226532325
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picture Theory written by W. J. T. Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.

Author : Dennis Zuev
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
ISBN 13 : 9783030545123
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Sociology written by Dennis Zuev and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the ‘relational image’: the urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.

Author : Gregory C. Stanczak
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483389383
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Research Methods written by Gregory C. Stanczak and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2007-03-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation translates abstract concepts into visually-compelling elements of everyday life. Differing from photographs as illustration, this edited volume synthesizes images with analytic questions about the world "out there." Editor Gregory C. Stanczak crisscrosses disciplines in ways that highlight the multiple manifestations of a new interdisciplinary trend.

Author : Russell Luyt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315413035
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diversity in Gender and Visual Representation written by Russell Luyt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to encourage and develop understanding of the social category of gender, the concept of visual representation, and the relationship between the two, with contributions stimulating discussion within and between disciplines, research paradigms, and methods. By emphasising ‘real world’ issues, drawn from across the globe, the book aims to contribute towards and inspire broader feminist activism. Inviting readers to approach in an interdisciplinary spirit, the contributions suspend assumptions, and ask us to accept conceptual contradictions and tensions as they may arise, aspiring to (re)centre the concept of representation when considering the social category of gender within our dynamic and changing digital age. This book will be of interest to academics, students, and practitioners from a range of disciplines with an interest in gender studies and in particular the visual representation of gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.

Author : Douglas A. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415778956
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Sociology written by Douglas A. Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses a variety of approaches in visual sociology, including exemplars that connect visual sociology to the history of documentary, photojournalism and art photography.

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080537139
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of multi-disciplinary research lies in the exchange of ideas and methods across the traditional boundaries between areas of study. It could be argued that many of the advances in science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one discipline become re-applied in another. The topic of "the visual" has become increasingly important as advances in technology have led to multi-media and multi-modal representations, and extended the range and scope of visual representation and interpretation in our lives. Under this broad heading there are many different perspectives and approaches, from across the entire spectrum of human knolwedge and activity. The editors and authors of this book aim to break down cross-disciplinary barriers, by bringing together people working in a wide variety of disciplines where visual representations and interpretations are exploited. Contributions come from researchers actively investigating visual representations and interpretations in a wide variety of areas, including art history, biology, clinical science, cognitive science, computer science, design, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology. The book provides a forum for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary contributions on visual representations and interpretations. * Contributors include researchers actively investigating visual representations and interpretations * Content spans a wide variety of areas including but not limited to biology, sociology, and computer science * Discusses how new technology has affected "the visual" representation of information

Author : Michael Emmison
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847876374
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researching the Visual written by Michael Emmison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The book has a solid practical feel to it, and although it deals philosophically with leading theorists such as Foucault, Goffman, Bourdieu and Hall it grounds the practice of visual research into everyday use... Weaved cleverly throughout are numerous practical exercises which draw together the theoretical concepts and give them a grounded rational element. This book is a valuable research tool and I would anticipate that many researchers will find it a worthwhile addition to their armoury' - Mental Health Care Providing a comprehensive introduction to the entire field of visual research, this book reviews the contributions of traditions as diverse as semiotics, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and