Visually exploring social perceptions of environmental harm in global urban contexts

Natali, Lorenzo

doi:10.1177/0011392118823842

“…The majority of those who live within contaminated environments navigate a complex set of perceptions and conflicting versions of reality (Natali, 2019). Photo elicitation can prove to be powerful tool in getting interviewees to discuss the conflict between what might be a distorted version of the contamination within their own subjectivities with the objective reality of their situation (Natali, 2019). During the present research however, photo elicitation proved to more of a 'heuristic research tool' (Natali, 2018, pg.…”

Section: Theoretical Worldview: Looking At the Landfill Through An Ecmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Another aspect of the methodology employed by the present research was photo elicitation (Natali, 2019). Photo elicitation is where an interview is organised around a set of preselected images (Natali, 2019). Although the interviews were not entirely organised around a selection of photographs, participants were shown photographs of the pollution during the interview where relevant to act as a recollection prompt (see Figure I pictured below).…”

Section: Theoretical Worldview: Looking At the Landfill Through An Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I found that having a visual representation on hand to show the interviewees acted as a tool that enhanced the recollection of the participant of something relevant to the research that they were then able to discuss in more detail. The majority of those who live within contaminated environments navigate a complex set of perceptions and conflicting versions of reality (Natali, 2019). Photo elicitation can prove to be powerful tool in getting interviewees to discuss the conflict between what might be a distorted version of the contamination within their own subjectivities with the objective reality of their situation (Natali, 2019).…”

Section: Theoretical Worldview: Looking At the Landfill Through An Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Seeping Ugly

Louisson¹

2021

Preprint

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<p>This thesis examines the human experience of encountering manifestations of historical pollution from the Houghton Bay legacy landfill in Wellington New Zealand. While much scholarship has already been dedicated to researching the broad characteristics of environmental victims, there exists a gap within the literature regarding the specific human experiences of historical pollution within urban contexts. This thesis tells the experiential stories of the Houghton Bay residents and their encounters with the landfill and examines their efforts to have overseeing institutions acknowledge their victimization. Through the examination of institutional documents, scientific evidence, visual illustrations and ten qualitative interviews with Houghton Bay residents, the research constructs a holistic view of how a deliberately confused and obfuscated informational landscape concerning a case of historical pollution can not only inhibit institutional acknowledgement of the experience of becoming and living as an environmental victim, but exasperate it. The thesis concludes that the human experience of historical pollution within urban settings is complicated by means of state and corporate propagated agnosis and ainigmology, and that in that process the question of ‘who is responsible’ becomes evident. </p>

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“…By using qualitative research to work with images and words, we traced the multiple visions of participants activated via different perspectives. In asking what responses the selfie pictures triggered in our participants, we aimed to defamiliarize conventional ways of seeing (and not seeing) (see Natali, 2019).…”

Section: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze

Lavrence

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Cambre

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2020

Social Media + Society

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Filtered faces are some of the most heavily engaged photos on social media. The vast majority of literature on selfies have focused on self-reported practices of creating and posting selfies and how subjects view themselves, but research on using filters and the kinds of looking filter provoke is underexplored. Part of a larger project, this analysis draws from a study using photo-elicitation techniques to discuss selfie filters with 12 focus groups, exploring the dominant discourses of cis-gendered looking within digital sociality. We explore how participants edit their selfies, imagine potential audiences, interact with, and perceive the filtering behaviors of others, asking what the “work” of filters is, visually and socially. We probe the kinds of discourses filters participate in, and their gendered and affective dimensions. Our focus groups indicate that when looking at the selfies of others there is often an a priori assumption that filtering has been applied, whether conspicuously or not, to the extent that visual tune-ups have become central to the genre itself. As such, we explore the ambivalence and anxiety about authenticity that filters produce, as well as the intense looking practices aimed at decoding the legitimacy of images. We posit that filters are part of a digital ecosystem that demands an intensification of looking practices, which produce and enhance specific forms of objectification directed toward selves and others within digital environments.

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“…Another aspect of the methodology employed by the present research was photo elicitation (Natali, 2019). Photo elicitation is where an interview is organised around a set of preselected images (Natali, 2019).…”

Section: Theoretical Worldview: Looking At the Landfill Through An Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeping Ugly

Louisson¹

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<p>This thesis examines the human experience of encountering manifestations of historical pollution from the Houghton Bay legacy landfill in Wellington New Zealand. While much scholarship has already been dedicated to researching the broad characteristics of environmental victims, there exists a gap within the literature regarding the specific human experiences of historical pollution within urban contexts. This thesis tells the experiential stories of the Houghton Bay residents and their encounters with the landfill and examines their efforts to have overseeing institutions acknowledge their victimization. Through the examination of institutional documents, scientific evidence, visual illustrations and ten qualitative interviews with Houghton Bay residents, the research constructs a holistic view of how a deliberately confused and obfuscated informational landscape concerning a case of historical pollution can not only inhibit institutional acknowledgement of the experience of becoming and living as an environmental victim, but exasperate it. The thesis concludes that the human experience of historical pollution within urban settings is complicated by means of state and corporate propagated agnosis and ainigmology, and that in that process the question of ‘who is responsible’ becomes evident. </p>

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Visually exploring social perceptions of environmental harm in global urban contexts

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