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Digital storytelling, image-making and self-representation: Building digital literacy as an ethical response for supporting Aboriginal young peoples’ digital identities
Get PDFFrom the early 19th century, Aboriginal culture in southeast Australia was severely disrupted by colonisation, the affects of which continue to reverberate within that community today. Visual material from the colonial period was often used as a means for classifying and labelling Aboriginal people in the southeast, resulting in many images being used to justify the idea of the so-called inevitable decline of Aboriginal people and to reinforce racist stereotypes. In this paper we discuss a digital storytelling workshop with Aboriginal young people from southeast Australia, which sought to develop digital literacy as an ethical imperative that would allow Aboriginal youth to construct visual content that not only challenged the traditional concept of digital storytelling as a linear, first-person, autobiographical narrative, but focused on developing Aboriginal young peoples’ capacity to control digital self-representations, which supported their explorations of their identity and culture. This was considered in terms of an ethical response to the use of visual methods in research with Aboriginal young people, as some images that are produced and consumed in the digital realm may provoke inappropriate and racist responses, a reality among Aboriginal communities, and one potentially aggravated by the rapid transmission of digital images via social network sites
Making visible the invisible: using photovoice to explore the experiences of female multigenerational caring
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Advances in Visual Methodology
Get PDFIn recent years we have witnessed a ‘visual turn’ in the social sciences, as an increasing number of scholars are engaging with visual methodologies for the collection, analysis, and display of both qualitative and quantitative data. To mention an example, video ethnography is gaining momentum across a range of disciplines, at a time when social scientists are increasingly concerned with capturing the minutiae and details of social practices. What is more, recent developments in information technology are extending the range of techniques for the capture and analysis of visual data, therefore opening up new possibilities for research and practice. It is no coincidence that several books on visual methodologies were published in the last ten years (Margolis & Pauwels, 2011; Rose, 2007; Van Leeuwen & Jewitt, 2001) and an entire volume on visual data analysis was included in the SAGE collection on qualitative research methods (Banks & Flick, 2007). But what is distinctive about Sarah Pink’s Advances in Visual Methodology is the attempt to establish visual methodology as an interdisciplinary field of practice, while recognizing the interconnectedness of theory, technology and methods
A Mixed Methods Approach for Analyzing the Imagery of a Novel Science
Get PDFThough scientists and governments have realized the potential of nanoscience research, much of the public is still unfamiliar with nanoscience and current advancements. Scholars have found that one of the most persuasive powers of science is how it is visually portrayed to the public. However, among the few articles that examine the visual rhetoric of nano images, the images are described and interpreted but there is no comparison between these rhetorical evaluations and the results of qualitative audience reception studies. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how various types of nano images (as identified by Robinson's image typology (2004): schematics, documentation, fantasy, and fine art) operate rhetorically to influence public perception. It used a mixed-method approach, combining critical rhetorical analysis and in-depth interviews to allow for a more complex analysis about the relationship between image and viewer. Findings suggest that images created by professional artists, or “fine art” images as defined by Robeson (2004) may be the most attractive types of images for lay viewer. This information may help scientists understand how the public’s knowledge and perception of nanoscience is shaped through nano imagery
Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research
Get PDFPsychology is without doubt a broad, deep and well-established research field. Its status as a field that is part-health care, part-science and part-humanities gives psychological research broad terrain to explore, and these explorations regularly provide headline grabbing findings with broad impacts. While it is respected for these strengths, to the uninducted observer, psychology does not come to mind as a field in which diverse visual experimentation readily occurs. The pairing of ‘visual methods’ and ‘psychology’ in the title of this book is perhaps initially surprising. Nevertheless, it contains 22 articles on psychological research that involve significant visual elements at some stage of the research process. These articles document research from a broad range of sub-fields within psychological research including conversation analysis, discursive psychology, narrative psychology, personal construct theory and psychoanalysis
Editorial
Get PDFWelcome to the first issue of Visual Methodologies, a new on-line visual studies journal which will critically engage with the development, utilisation and influence of visual experience in the production and consumption of knowledge of contemporary social and material conditions. Visual Methodologies provides a forum for debating emerging visual research methods across a constellation of visual domains and fields of enquiry, embracing perspectives beyond the bounded parameters of disciplinary tradition and towards hybridity, mobility and postdisciplinarity
A Delegate’s Perspective: Review of the Second International Visual Research Methods Conference 13-15 September 2011
Get PDFoai:vm.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org:article/8The Second International Visual Research Methods Conference was interdisciplinary, innovative, questioning and poignant; therefore when approached by Visual Methodologies to provide a review, I was pleased to accept the invitation. Firstly, it provided an opportunity to revisit the experience of the conference; and its ideas, techniques and concepts. Secondly, being part of the inaugural publication of this post-disciplinary visual journal resonated well with the collaborative ethos of the conference; and I expect to see many conference papers as forthcoming contributions to Visual Methodologies. Unfortunately, I could not report on all of the sessions, exhibitions and films; at best the review is selective and subjective. However, my review should offer an insight into the valuable methodological, ethical and theoretical contributions generated by the event