ABSTRACT
Digital visual methods are used to research computer-based or virtual visual images that are shared and displayed online. These images include video, film, photographs, drawings, sculptures, graphic novels, infographics, memes, presentations, screenshots, cartoons and comics, for example. Digital visual methods can be used in qualitative research to analyse the ways that human beings communicate through visual images or to help understand and explain human interaction and behaviour, and in quantitative research to communicate results, depict phenomena that cannot be seen or explain relations between properties. A. Gubrium and K. Harper provide a comprehensive guide for those interested in participatory visual and digital methods C. Heath et al. provide a useful guide for those who are interested in the use of video.
