Advances in Visual Methodology
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Advances in Visual
Methodology
Edited by
Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink 2012
Andrew Clark 2012
Lydia Martens 2012
Jon Hindmarsh and Dylan Tutt 2012
Elisenda Ardvol 2012
Cristina Grasseni 2012
Sarah Pink 2012
Francesco Lapenta 2012
Maggie ONeill 2012
Christina Lammer 2012
Roderick Coover 2012
Marcus Banks 2012
Susan Hogan and Sarah Pink 2012
Luc Pauwels 2012
First published 2012
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CONTENTS
Sarah Pink
Andrew Clark
Lydia Martens
Jon Hindmarsh and Dylan Tutt
Elisenda Ardvol
Cristina Grasseni
Sarah Pink
Francesco Lapenta
Maggie ONeill
Christina Lammer
Roderick Coover with Pat Badani, Flavia Caviezel, Mark Marino, Nitin Sawhney and William Uricchio
Marcus Banks
Susan Hogan and Sarah Pink
Luc Pauwels
LIST OF FIGURES
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Pink is professor of social sciences at Loughborough University. She is known internationally for her work relating to visual and sensory methodology and her publications in this area include the books: Doing Visual Ethnography (2001, 2007, also published in Polish by Jagiellonian University Press in 2009), Doing Sensory Ethnography (2009), Working Images (co-ed., 2004), Visual Interventions (ed. 2007) and The Future of Visual Anthropology (2006). Her methodological work is often developed in the context of research projects that seek to connect theoretical scholarship with applied research, currently with a focus that includes questions concerning digital media and sustainability.
Elisenda Ardvol is professor at the department of arts and humanities of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and resident researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the same University in Barcelona (Spain) where she coordinates the research group in digital culture mediaccions. As social and cultural anthropologist, she has published La busqueda de una mirada (2006) on visual anthropology and ethnographic film, analysing the theoretical and methodological perspectives of doing research with visual data, as well as other academic papers related to new media practices and online research methods. She has taught courses at different Spanish and Latin-American universities, having been lecturer and visiting scholar at the Centre for Visual Anthropology, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Currently, her main line of research is media anthropology and cultural production in Internet and related digital technologies.
Marcus Banks is professor of visual anthropology at the University of Oxford. After his doctorate at the University of Cambridge he trained in documentary film production at the National Film and Television School. He has published widely on ethnographic film and visual research methodology. His books include Rethinking Visual Anthropology (co-edited with Howard Morphy, 1997), Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research (2007), and Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (co-edited with Jay Ruby, 2011). His previous research includes a study of film in colonial India and a short study of image use on the social networking site Facebook. He is currently in the early stages of research on image use in forensic science.
Andrew Clark is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Salford. His research focuses on the interaction between space and society. Past research projects have explored representations of deprived neighbourhoods and social interactions in public places. He recently completed a three-year research project funded by the ESRC on the interaction between social networks, neighbourhoods and community that developed visual methods as part of a qualitatively driven multi-method approach. His recent articles have been published in Art and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice; The International Journal of Research Methodology; and Journal of Youth Studies.
Roderick Coover is an associate professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Several of his works, including the CD-ROM, Cultures in Webs: Working in Hypermedia with the Documentary Image (Eastgate), the DVD, From Verite to Virtual: Conversations on the Frontier of Film and Anthropology (Documentary Educational Resources) and the co-edited book, Switching Codes: Thinking Through Technology In The Humanities And Arts (Chicago), examine relationships between visual practices and scholarly research practices. His interactive and video works include: Unknown Territories series (Unknownterritories.org), Inside/Outside, and The Theory of Time Here (Video Data Bank), which explores questions in the representation of place and visual technologies. He has also made ethnographic films such as The Language of Wine: An Ethnography of Work, Wine and the Senses (languageofwine.com), which looks at how the words of an occupation winemaking in Burgundy shape the metaphors lives are lived by. Coover exhibits his work internationally and is a recipient of Mellon, Fulbright and Whiting awards. His essays and artist papers can be found in journals such as: Ethnographiques, Visual Studies, Visual Anthropology, Film International and Film Quarterly, among others (www.roderickcoover.com).
