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Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

Fourth Edition
by Gillian Rose

Student Resources

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  • Author videos
  1. Researching with Visual Materials: A Brief Survey
    • Journal article
  2. ‘The Good Eye’: Looking at Pictures Using Compositional Interpretation
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Video and Audio Clips
  3. Content Analysis and Cutltural Analytics: Finding Patterns in What You See
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Journal article
    • Web link
  4. Semiology: Laying Bare the Prejudices ‒ Beneath the Smooth Surface of the Visible
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Video and Audio Clips
  5. Psychoanalysis: Visual Culture, Visual Pleasure, Visual Disruption
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Video and Audio Clips
  6. Discourse Analysis I: Text, Intertextuality and Context
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Journal article
    • Video and Audio Clips
  7. Discourse Analysis II: Institutions and Ways of Seeing
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Journal article
  8. To Audience Studies and Beyond: Ethnographies of Audiences, Fans and Users
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Journal article
    • Web link
  9. Digital Methods: Digital Images, Digitally Analysed
    • Resource
    • Journal article
    • Web link
  10. Making Images as Research Data: Photo-documentation and Photo-elicitation
    • Resource
    • Journal article
  11. Using Images to Disseminate Research Findings: Circulation and Audiencing
    • Resource
    • Exercise
  12. Research Ethics and Visual Materials
    • Resource
    • Exercise
    • Web links
  13. Visual Methodologies: A Review
    • Journal article
  • Study Skills

Journal article

Select SAGE journal articles are available to give you even more insight into different chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

Click on the following links which will open in a new window.

Bagnoli, A. (2009) 'Beyond the standard interview: the use of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods', Qualitative Research, 9: 547‒70.

Darbyshire, P., C. MacDougall, and W. Schiller (2005) 'Multiple methods in qualitative research with children: More insight or just more?', Qualitative Research, 5: 417‒36.

Keats, P.A. (2009) 'Multiple text analysis in narrative research: visual, written, and spoken stories of experience', Qualitative Research, 9: 181‒95.

Mannay, D. (2010) 'Making the familiar strange: can visual research methods render the familiar setting more perceptible?', Qualitative Research, 10: 91‒111.

Murray, L. (2009) 'Looking at and looking back: visualization in mobile research', Qualitative Research, 9: 469‒88.

Favero, Paolo. ‘Getting Our Hands Dirty (again): Interactive Documentaries and the Meaning of Images in the Digital Age’, Journal of Material Culture 18 (3) (September 1, 2013): 259–77. doi:10.1177/1359183513492079.

Franzen, Sarah. ‘Engaging a Specific, Not General, Public: The Use of Ethnographic Film in Public Scholarship’, Qualitative Research 13 (4) (2013): 414–27. doi:10.1177/1468794113488410.

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