Doing Visual Research
- Claudia Mitchell - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Communication Research Methods | Research Methods for Cultural Studies | Social Research Methods
The book looks at a range of conceptual and practical approaches to a range of tools and methods, whilst also highlighting the interpretive and ethical issues that arise when engaging in visual research. Claudia Mitchell draws on her own work in the field of visual research throughout to offer extensive examples from a variety of settings and with a variety of populations.
Topics covered include:
• Photographs and memory work studies
• Video and social change
• Participatory archiving with drawings and photos
• Working with images/Writing about images
• Can visual methods make a difference? From practice to policy
Doing Visual Research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of visual research, producing a practical introduction to the subject that will be of great use to students and researchers across the social sciences, and in particular in education, communication, sociology, gender, development, social work and public health.
Excellent book but not appropriate for the class.
Unusual research methods that are not usually discussed in other research manuals, but not central to the class. Otherwise, an excellent resource.
The module is about the nature of research and its relationship to creativity. Many of the students are working in visual and creative fields. The book is recommended for them. It is a useful source for students who need to understand the function and value of research paradigms but avoid getting trapped in technique. I like it's approach which is summed up for me by the chapter title, "What can a visual researcher do with a camera?"
This is an interesting text but it is too specific for BA project students. I would however recommend it to any student planning to use visual research methods.
The book is useful in that it offers clear conceptualisations of the theory of visualisation and clear examples of how to do visual analysis. From the viewpoint of computer science and information systems, a more explicit stance towards technology is something that we have to develop ourselves. In this development this book offers good background knowledge.
An accessible text that is also methodologically rich, also has very helpful illustrations from a range of different projects.
A great supplementary text to aid in the understanding of visual analysis, the importance and technicality of it.
An excellent book. More accessible and practically focused than the earlier (groundbreaking) Rose.
Very useful book for students interested in the methodology
A good source to comprehend the other aspects of research; that it is not restricted to just words, graphs and numbers.
An excellent reference book.
