Visual Sociology

Practices and Politics in Contested Spaces

• Author(s): Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford,
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Pages: 159
• ISBN_10: 3030545121
  ISBN_13: 9783030545123
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Media Studies , Photography / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Television / General , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Performing Arts / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:...

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.