Visual research methods are quickly becoming key topics of interest and are now widely recognised as having the potential to evoke emphatic understanding of the ways in which other people experience their worlds. Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods examines the pract…
This text provides an indispensible guide to the use and study of visual materials in empirical, qualitative field research. The book combines theory with practice and covers a wide range of media, including the Internet.
There has been an explosion of interest in visual culture - coming largely from work in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies and while there are a number of practical and technical manuals available for film, photographic and other visual media, there is a dearth of writ…
"Robins assesses the nature of our emotional and imaginary investment in the visual media, from photography to virtual reality. He looks at how modern image technologies allow us to monitor and survey the 'real' world while maintaining a distance that somehow denies its reality,…
Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.