The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods

The second, thoroughly revised and expanded, edition of The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods presents a wide-ranging exploration and overview of the field today. As in its first edition, the Handbook does not aim to present a consistent view or voice, but rather to exemplify diversity and contradictions in perspectives and techniques. The selection of chapters from the first edition have been fully updated to reflect current developments. New chapters to the second edition cover key topics including picture-sorting techniques, creative methods using artefacts, visual framing analysis, therapeutic uses of images, and various emerging digital technologies and online practices. At the core of all contributions are theoretical and methodological debates about the meanings and study of the visual, presented in vibrant accounts of research design, analytical techniques, fieldwork encounters and data presentation. This handbook presents a unique survey of the discipline that will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social and behavioural sciences, arts and humanities, and far beyond these disciplinary boundaries. The Handbook is organized into seven main sections: PART 1: FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH PART 2: VISUAL AND SPATIAL DATA PRODUCTION METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES PART 3: PARTICIPATORY AND SUBJECT-CENTERED APPROACHES PART 4: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES  PART 5: MULTIMODAL AND MULTISENSORIAL RESEARCH PART 6: RESEARCHING ONLINE PRACTICES PART 7: COMMUNICATING THE VISUAL: FORMATS AND CONCERNS  

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Visual Dialogues across Different Schools of Thought - Luc Pauwels and Dawn Mannay PART 1: FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH Chapter 2: An Integrated Conceptual and Methodological Framework for the Visual Study of Culture and Society - Luc Pauwels Chapter 3: Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture - Richard Chalfen Chapter 4: Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry - Jon Wagner Chapter 5: Seeing Things: Visual Research and Material Culture - Jon Wagner PART 2: VISUAL AND SPATIAL DATA PRODUCTION METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 6: Rephotography for Documenting Social Change - Jon H. Rieger Chapter 7: Repeat Photography in Landscape Research - Mark Klett Chapter 8: Videography: An Interpretative Approach to Video-Recorded Micro-Social Interaction - Hubert Knoblauch and René Tuma Chapter 9: Eye-Tracking as a Method of Visual Research - Clare Kirtley Chapter 10: Expanding Cartographic Practices in the Social Sciences - Innisfree McKinnon and Jessica McCallum Breen Chapter 11: Participatory Geographic Information Systems in Visual Research - Wen Lin Chapter 12: Visualization in Social Analysis - John Grady Chapter 13: Visual Research Methods in the Design Process - Prasad Boradkar and Tejas Dhadphale PART 3: PARTICIPATORY AND SUBJECT-CENTERED APPROACHES Chapter 14: Methodological Variation in Participant Visual Media Production - Richard Chalfen Chapter 15: Community-Based Participatory Video and Social Action - Claudia Mitchell and Naydene de Lange Chapter 16: Digital Storytelling as a Research Method - Sarah Flicker and Katie MacEntee Chapter 17: Photovoice: A Critical Introduction - E-J Milne and Rachel Muir Chapter 18: Using Drawing in Visual Research: Materializing the Invisible - Philippa Lyon Chapter 19: Picture-sorting Techniques: Card Sorting and Q-sort as Alternative and Complementary Approaches in Visual Social Research - Katharina Lobinger and Cornelia Brantner Chapter 20: Artefacts, Third Objects, Sandboxing and Figurines in the Doll’s House - Dawn Mannay Chapter 21: The Therapeutic Use of Photography: Phototherapy and Therapeutic - Del Loewenthal PART 4: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES Chapter 22: Quantitative Content Analysis of the Visual - Katy Parry Chapter 23: Visual Semiotics: Key Concepts and New Directions - Giorgia Aiello Chapter 24: Advances in Visual Rhetorical Analysis - Laurie Gries Chapter 25: Iconology and Documentary Method in the Interpretation of Divergent Types of Visual Materials - Ralf Bohnsack Chapter 26: Ethnomethodology and the Visual: Practices of Looking, Visualization, and Embodied Action - Michael Ball and Gregory Smith Chapter 27: Methodological Approaches to Disclosing Historic Photographs - Eric Margolis and Jeremy Rowe Chapter 28: Researching Film and History: Sources, Methods, Approaches - James Chapman PART 5: MULTIMODAL AND MULTISENSORIAL RESEARCH Chapter 29: Multimodality and Multimodal Research - Theo van Leeuwen Chapter 30: Visual and Multimodal Framing Analysis - Renée Moernaut, Jelle Mast and Luc Pauwels Chapter 31: Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis: how to reveal discourses of health and ethics in food packaging - Per Ledin and David Machin Chapter 32: How to ‘Read’ Images with Texts: The Graphic Novel Case - Jan Baetens and Steven Surdiacourt Chapter 33: A Multisensory Approach to Visual Methods - Sarah Pink Chapter 34: Rapid Prototyping for Social Science Research - Carey Jewitt, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Douglas Atkinson and Sara Price PART 6: RESEARCHING ONLINE PRACTICES Chapter 35: A Multimodal Model for Exploring the Material Culture of Digital Networked Platforms and their Practices - Luc Pauwels Chapter 36: Contemporary Landscapes of Visual and Digital Communication: The Interplay of Social, Semiotic, and Technological Change - Clarice Gualberto and Gunther Kress Chapter 37: Understanding Online Images: Content, Context and Circulation as Analytical Foci - Helen Lomax and Janet Fink Chapter 38: Visual and Affective Analysis of Social Media - Kate Marston PART 7: COMMUNICATING THE VISUAL: FORMATS AND CONCERNS Chapter 39: Creating Visual Essays: Narrative and Thematic Approaches - Terence Heng Chapter 40: Anthropological Filmmaking: An Empirical Art - David MacDougall Chapter 41: Visual Ethnography and Emerging Digital Technologies - Paolo, S. H. Favero Chapter 42: Revisualizing Data: Engagement, Impact and Multimodal Dissemination - Dawn Mannay Chapter 43: Making Arguments with Images: Visual Scholarship and Academic Publishing - Darren Newbury Chapter 44: Visual Ethics beyond the Crossroads - Andrew Clark Chapter 45: Legal Issues of Using Images in Research - Jeremy Rowe

About the Author :
Luc Pauwels, PhD, is Professor of Visual Research Methods in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Founder and Director of the Visual & Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) at the University of Antwerp, and Vice President of Research of RC57 “Visual Sociology” of the International Sociological Association (ISA). As a visual sociologist and communication scientist, he published widely on visual research methodologies, visual ethics, family photography, website analysis, anthropological filmmaking, visual corporate culture, urban culture, and scientific visualization. Books include Visual Cultures of Science (UPNE, 2006), The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2011, together with Eric Margolis), and a monograph with Cambridge University Press: Reframing Visual Social Science. Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology, 2015. Dawn Mannay is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Cardiff University. Her research interests revolve around class, education, families, identity, and inequality. Dawn employs participatory and visual methods in her work with communities, and she has facilitated a number of international creative methods workshops. Dawn was the principal investigator on a study exploring the education of care-experienced children and young people, and she is currently involved in a project for the Welsh Government, facilitating the online community of practice—ExChange: Care and Education. Dawn edited a collection for the University Wales Press, Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales (2016) and wrote the sole authored text for Routledge, Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics (2016). Her most recent work, Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships, coedited with Dr. Tracey Loughran, was published by Emerald in 2018.

Review :
There is nothing to match this handbook in terms of the breadth and quality of its coverage of visual research methods. From quantitative to qualitative to digital methods, from photography and film to Geographical Information Systems and figurines, a very wide range of visual research methods are succinctly discussed by their leading practitioners. If you use or teach any kind of visual research method, you need this book. This revised collection offers essential resources for researchers interested in penetrating the common cliché that the present is increasingly ‘visual’. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, the book traces the full spectrum of visual experience from the process of looking at everyday objects to new considerations of the role of drawing, photography, digital and media images in contemporary visual culture. Carefully curated from contributions by leading researchers in the field, it provides an invaluable primer in established and emergent visual research methods. The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods provides an indispensable overview for researchers aware of how the ‘visual’ pervades contemporary social life. The book takes into account the study of the production context of ‘visuals’, the visual artefacts/phenomena and the context of use. It offers a wide plurality of theoretical approaches and it includes research accounts of scholars working in different disciplines (sociology, anthropology, psychology…). The new edition extends the opportunities to engage research participants as active agents (i.e. through digital storytelling, photovoice and drawing) and to practice a more multimodal and multisensorial research approach. The handbook is an essential guide to teaching visual methods! This timely collection offers an exciting and comprehensive overview of contemporary visual research studies, methodologies and practices. Written by leading and emerging scholars, this edition brings together an exceptional range of essays that reflect and explore significant continuities, developments and challenges within the robust, expansive, and interdisciplinary field of visual research methods. Through its structure and content, the collection invites visual dialogue across diverse and established schools of thought. The reader is challenged to think about how ‘the visual’ operates as a complex and pervading aspect of everyday life, that is not reducible to ‘images’ or products of visual media. This will be a vital resource for visually oriented researchers and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, and a valuable addition to any university or college library.  "Overall the book is highly informative because it documents diverse aspects of visual research methods in considerable detail. It is a vital resource for scholars engaging in visually oriented research projects, even for those readers unfamiliar with the field."