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- Bateman, John, et al.
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Towards next-generation visual archives: image, film and discourse
- 2016
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 31, s. 131-154
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The digital turn in visual studies has played a major role in the terminological overlap between ‘archive’, ‘database’ and ‘corpus’, and it has brought about a number of positive developments such as improved accessibility and availability. At the same time, it has also raised important questions pertaining to the materiality, searchability, annotation and analysis of the data at hand. Through a series of theoretical constructs and empirical examples, this paper illustrates the necessity and benefits of interdisciplinary dialogue when tackling the multimodal corpus annotation challenge. The meaningful interrelations between semiotic modes, the combinations between manual and (semi)automated annotation, the seamless integration of coding and annotation schemes which share common logics and the contextual embedding of the presented analyses strongly suggest multimodal document analysis in all its forms will continuously benefit from a corpus-based approach.
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- Fälton, Emelie
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Descendants of the modernist museum: tracing the musealisation of Swedish national parks
- 2023
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 38:1, s. 81-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish national parks face a shift, transforming them from spaces where tourism is a sub-interest into spaces where tourism is a primary focus. Through the establishment of new instructive installations, the intention is to make these parks Europe’s most popular nature-based tourism destinations. Such installations construct the non-human world, often depicted as nature, and contribute to shaping human understandings of nature. In this article, I seek to trace, make visible, and problematize how knowledge of nature is put to work and how power operates through these installations, but also how the non-human world is produced visually, and how all of this produces specific ways of seeing it. This is enabled by a discourse analysis with visual ethnographic influences, in which I focus on representations with an emphasis on design, content, and posed rationality. The analysis is designed in a reflexive explorative manner, where the empirical context leads the analytical direction while the research process and its steps are presented systematically. Through this analysis, I arguet hat the national parks are transformed into museological organisations similar to the modernist museum, centred around educating visitors by displaying ‘real nature,’ and that this has implications for how the non-human world is understood. The most prominent of these is that a distance is promoted between the tourists and the non-human world.
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- Grunditz, Sofia
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How to preserve the visible content of films in visual form throughout the analytical process?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 36:1, s. 25-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article demonstrates an analytical and arts-based approach using drawings as tools to retain the visual information in a film visual, throughout the research process as well as for thinking. The approach brings in methods and theory from disciplines using visual materials as data: Visual Anthropology, Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis (EMCA), Art History and Film Studies. Furthermore, tools and reflections on how to sketch, draw and construct analytical images using paper and pen, technical tools such as features in movie players and image processing software, and basic drawing apps on a tablet, are presented and demonstrated in empirical examples from a study on preschool naptime. The drawn analysis are abstractions of the visual data where certain visual aspects, visible in the film, are re-used thus creating a direct link between the film and the drawing that preserve visual aspects of the original throughout the research process. This gains new knowledge, further and different knowledge than just using words. Also, the drawings address ethical issues as children's right to anonymity in a study. The visual remake is proposed as a term for this arts-based approach to highlight, enhance and visualise the features of films that are of special interest to an enquiry and facilitate comparative analysis.
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- Kroon, Ann, 1963-
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Bogotá D.C.
- 2013
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 28:3, s. 296-297
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kroon, Ann
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Fading ads of New York City
- 2013
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 28:1, s. 105-106
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kroon, Ann
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The ruins of Managua vieja : the use of expressive photography in urban ethnography
- 2016
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 31:3, s. 191-205
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes a method of conducting urban visual work – a practice-led visual study in which researcher-generated expressive photography explores the ‘city-as-archive’ (Hetherington 2013) and contributes to the urban visual archive. The photographs used in this article focus upon the social world of material remnants in the setting of the old downtown of Managua, Nicaragua. The aim of the article is four-fold: to suggest the epistemological gains of expressive photography, to discuss the methodology and style, to present the use of these images in an urban visual ethnography of Managua and to address related ethical concerns. Although expressive photographs are used to some extent by scholars, there is a noticeable lack of discussion of the method and empirical examples in urban visual studies. In this article, I propose intentionally using expressive photography to convey the subjective and affective knowledge that is generally not communicated by more conventional, ‘realist’ documentary visual techniques. Moving into a more explicit conversation of the work process, I point out three arenas for inquiry, for which this method can be useful. I detail my own visual ethnographic practice, and present my primary visual aims in three image clusters: expressive photography in conjunction with historical images, theorising the oscillation between absence and presence and visually interpreting the vernacular design of the ruinscape. The article concludes with a consideration of ‘ruin romance’ as an ethical concern, as well as some reflections over perceived difficulties in using this method as a means of doing academic research.
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- Mattus, Maria
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Too dead? Image analyses of humanitarian photos of the Kurdi brothers
- 2020
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 35:1, s. 51-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Alan and Galip Kurdi, aged three and five years respectively, drowned in the Mediterranean in 2015. The name of one of these brothers became profoundly imprinted in people’s minds as a symbol of the refugee crisis, while the other’s name barely was noticed at all and now seems totally forgotten. After being washed ashore at a Turkish tourist resort, the bodies were documented by the photojournalist Nilüfer Demir. The images went viral, and mainstream news media broke a long-lasting social taboo by publishing some of them to evoke people’s emotions. Despite quite similar circumstances, why did the images of Alan Kurdi become iconic, while the images of Galip did not attract public attention in the same way? This study focuses on four images of the brothers, which are examined using a semiotic framework derived from Barthes and Mitchell. The results suggest that there is a fine line between generating a deeper understanding of the plight of migrant children in Europe and causing even more distance to the objects. Obviously Galip was not worthy of the same degree of compassion as his younger brother, for instance, because his images were more gloomy, lacking any glimmer of hope; Galip seemed ‘too’ dead.
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- Normark, Daniel, 1974-, et al.
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Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens
- 2019
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Ingår i: Visual Studies. - 1472-586X .- 1472-5878. ; 34:1, s. 13-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristics of people; it takes into account the pragmatic and situated dimension and, thus, allows a generalised symmetry. From there, visual methods enable us to submit the collected material to a double treatment of a quantitative analysis of observed bicycles and a qualitative ethnomethodological analysis of bike rental sequences. To better understand the logic and challenges of our method, we present it alongside an analogy with a famous film equivalent–the strategy used by the film-maker Michael Haneke in his heuristic film(s), Funny Games. Despite objectives and content that are obviously completely at odds to one another, the Funny Games film(s) and our own videos share at least five interesting features: twin films, static shots, photomontage, silent films, and rewinding.
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