Visual Sociology

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the 'relational image': the urban, social media, and the aerial.

Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of visuality.

This concise overview will be of use to students and researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.

Foundational text of the Social Visualities book series https://link.springer.com/series/16832 A short case-study based guide to visual sociology for all interested in application of visual approaches and sociological thinking Covering themes understudied by visual sociologists, such as drone visualities and visual social media uses

Autorentext

Dennis Zuev is Assistant Professor at City University of Macau, China, and Research Fellow at CIES-ISCTE, IUL, Portugal.
Gary Bratchford is Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University of Central Lancashire, UK and Programme Leader for the MA in Photography.

Klappentext

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the relational image : the urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Visual Sociology and the Relational Image.- 2.Methodologies of Visual Sociology.- 3. Untangling the City Visually.- 4. Social Media and the Visual.- 5. Seeing like a Drone.- 6. CODA: Towards a Visual Sociology 3.0.