A Brief Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Library and Information Studies

Webb, Jenaya; Bedi, Shailoo

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“…Ultimately photovoice is about leveraging participant-taken photographs and discussions to raise community consciousness and promote community-level change. See Webb and Bedi (2020) and Tornabene, Nowak, and Vogelsang (2018) for thorough descriptions of visual research methods.…”

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Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media

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Davis

Foell

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Photovoice, a participatory action research method, has evolved little over the past two decades. The ubiquity of smartphones and their utility as digital cameras make them a natural fit for photovoice projects. The use of social media to post photographs and comment also has the potential to be a platform for photovoice activities. Using these technologies for photovoice promotes capturing daily life in vivo without the need of additional equipment. These technologies also allow the research team to see photos posted daily and track comments without waiting for scheduled interviews or group meetings and elevates the discussion into the public sphere to facilitate wider engagement. These strategies may also produce more photos and narratives than traditional methods by leveraging technology people use daily. Study participants noted these technologies facilitated wider understanding, awareness, and discussions of neighborhood issues.

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“…While some argue photovoice is a subtype of photo elicitation (Webb and Bedi 2020), it is distinguishable in three primary ways. First, photovoice is a participatory action research method where participants drive the process.…”

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Innovations to Photovoice: Using Smartphones & Social Media

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2022

Urban Affairs Review

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What Type of Data Are Images?

Webb Williams

2023

Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Vol 1)

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Images are an intriguing source of data for social scientists. Increasingly, the phrase “images as data” implies big data, digitized images, and quantitative analyses with elements of machine learning. This perspective, however, obscures the many other ways to conceive of what images are as data for social scientists. For example, big data, machine learning image researchers rely on labeled data to build classification algorithms. The process of labeling the data is essentially content analysis, a familiar tool to qualitative researchers. Thus, quantitative analyses are built on qualitative approaches, and both are a potentially valid way to use images to better understand the world. This chapter reviews current trends in images-as-data research while considering how the complicated nature of meaning derived from images lends itself to a pluralistic research approach. The chapter provides four guiding questions to use when embarking on or evaluating image research in political science.

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A Brief Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Library and Information Studies

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