Crowder Jerome W., Marion Jonathan S. Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually

2nd edition. — Routledge, 2024. — ISBN 9781032101781.Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually 2nd Edition provides an accessible introduction to doing visual research in the social sciences. Beginning with ethical considerations, this book highlights the importance of thinking visually before engaging in visual research. Further themes involve creating, organizing, and using images and are presented so as to help readers think about and work with their own visual data. This fully updated second edition includes new case studies, updated discussions regarding the ethics of social media and online content, new technology and an expansion to include new material on museum, public and applied work. Concise and highly focused, Visual Research is an invaluable resource for visual, media, and communications students and researchers and others interested in visual research in the social sciences.Introduction
Image Basics
The Ethics of Images
Starting to Think Visually
Thinking of Images as Data
Making Images
Cameras in Social Science Research
Photography
Video (with Eric Weissman)
Multimedia (with Eric Weissman)
Using Images
Organizing Images
Organization and Storage (with Michele Reilly)
Images, Metadata, and Research (with Michele Reilly)
Conclusion