Visual Research

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.

Jerome W. Crowder is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Behavior and Social Sciences at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston, USA. He is a former president and board member of the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA). Jonathan S. Marion is a former president of the Society for Visual Anthropology and the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and now works as a transformational life coach, consultant, and educator.

SECTION 1: Image Basics 1. The Ethics of Images 2. Starting to Think Visually 3. Thinking of Images as Data SECTION 2: Making Images 4. Cameras in Social Science Research 5. Photography 6. Video 7. Multimedia 8. Using Images SECTION 3: Organizing Images 9. Storage and Organization 10. Images, Metadata, and Research