Part I. Remodelling Visual Social Science: 1. Prologue and outline:
(re)framing visual social science?; 2. An integrated framework for
conducting and assessing visual social research; Part II. The Visual
Researcher as Collector and Interpreter: 3. Researching 'found' or
'pre-existing' visual materials; 4. A visual and multimodal model for
analyzing online environments; Part III. The Visual Researcher as Producer,
Facilitator and Communicator: 5. The mimetic mode: from exploratory to
systematic visual data production; 6. Visual elicitation techniques,
respondent-generated image production and 'participatory' visual activism;
7. The 'visual essay' as a scholarly format: art meets (social) science?;
8. Social scientific filmmaking and multimedia production: key features and
debates; Part IV. Applications/Case Studies: 9. Family photography as a
social practice: from the analogue to the digital networked world; 10. A
visual study of corporate culture: the workplace as metaphor; 11. Health
communication in South Africa: a visual study of posters, billboards and
grassroots media; Part V. Visual Research in a Wider Perspective: 12.
Ethics of visual research in the offline and online world; 13. A
meta-disciplinary framework for producing and assessing visual
representations; 14. Advancing visual research: pending issues and future
directions.
