ABSTRACT

Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually, Second Edition, provides an accessible introduction to doing visual research in the social sciences. Beginning with ethical considerations, this book highlights the importance of thinking visually before engaging in visual research. Further themes involve creating, organizing, and using images and are presented so as to help readers think about and work with their own visual data.

This fully updated second edition includes new case studies, updated discussions regarding the ethics of social media and online content, new technology, and an expansion to include new material on museum, public, and applied work.

Concise and highly focused, Visual Research is an invaluable resource for visual, media, and communications students and researchers, and others interested in visual research in the social sciences.

 

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

section Section 1|46 pages

Image Basics

chapter Chapter 1|13 pages

The Ethics of Images

chapter Chapter 2|18 pages

Starting to Think Visually

chapter Chapter 3|13 pages

Thinking of Images as Data

section Section 2|100 pages

Making Images

chapter Chapter 5|22 pages

Photography

chapter Chapter 6|25 pages

Video

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

Multimedia(with Eric Weissman)

chapter Chapter 8|23 pages

Using Images

section Section 3|44 pages

Organizing Images