Image-based research: a sourcebook for qualitative researchers

This text covers an image-based approach to qualitative research theory, and the research process and provides practical examples of how image-based research is applied in the field. Specifically, it covers a range of disciplines (sociology, anthropology, ethnography) and discusses the application of various image-based techniques (photography, film-making, video and cartoon)

This text covers an image-based approach to qualitative research theory, and the research process and provides practical examples of how image-based research is applied in the field. Specifically, it covers a range of disciplines (sociology, anthropology, ethnography) and discusses the application of various image-based techniques (photography, film-making, video and cartoon)

Visual anthropology / Marcus Banks -- An argument for visual sociology / Douglas Harper -- Film-making and ethnographic research / Paul Henley -- "The camera never lies" / Brian Winston -- Psychology and photographic theory / Órla Cronin -- Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism / Howard S. Becker -- The status of image-based research / Jon Prosser -- Photographs within the sociological research process / Jon Prosser and Dona Schwartz -- Remarks on visual competence as an integral part of ethnographic fieldwork practice / Michael Ball -- Photocontext / Clem Adelman -- Media convergence and social research / Rob Walker and Ron Lewis -- The application of images in child abuse investigations / Hollida Wakefield and Ralph Underwager -- Picture this! Class line-ups, vernacular portraits and lasting impressions of school / Claudia Mitchell and Sandra Weber -- Interpreting family photography as pictorial communication / Richard Chalfen -- Pupils using photographs in school self-evaluation / Michael Schratz and Ulrike Steiner-Löffler -- Cartoons and teachers / Terry Warburton -- Images and curriculum development in health education / Noreen M. Wetton and Jennifer McWhirter -- Making meanings in art worlds / Elizabeth Chaplin