Visual Methods for Sensitive Images

Beschreibung

This edited book provides a toolbox for researchers and students working with sensitive images in criminological research on and offline. Across three sections on collecting, analysing and mediating sensitive visual data, the chapters cover a wide array of current examples and discussions of visual methods and ethics in contemporary, digital-life criminology. It reflects the experiences of influential and innovative scholars engaging in empirical analysis of images across various subfields within criminology, including with images that deal with crime, social problems and stigma. They emphasize the opportunity for gaining knowledge through visual analysis and include methodological discussions of how to approach such sensitive data material. Some chapters address visuals as data in mediated realities and the related methodological concerns. The book also contributes to discussing the various ethical sides to researching crime-related sensitive images, such as anonymity, consent, and access, but also relates to researcher reflexivity and protecting researchers' well-being.

Sidsel Harder is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Silje Bakken is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway. 

This edited book provides a toolbox for researchers and students working with sensitive images in criminological research on and offline. Across three sections on collecting, analysing and mediating sensitive visual data, the chapters cover a wide array of current examples and discussions of visual methods and ethics in contemporary, digital-life criminology. It reflects the experiences of influential and innovative scholars engaging in empirical analysis of images across various subfields within criminology, including with images that deal with crime, social problems and stigma. They emphasize the opportunity for gaining knowledge through visual analysis and include methodological discussions of how to approach such sensitive data material. Some chapters address visuals as data in mediated realities and the related methodological concerns. The book also contributes to discussing the various ethical sides to researching crime-related sensitive images, such as anonymity, consent, and access, but also relates to researcher reflexivity and protecting researchers' well-being.

Autor*in

Sidsel Harder

Themen in »Visual Methods for Sensitive Images«

sensitive content research methods ethics sensitive data sensitive content research methods researcher wellbeing visual criminology participant consent methodological practice image-based sexual abuse memes digital culture visual research TikTok media sociology

Stimmen zu »Visual Methods for Sensitive Images«

“Since its inception, visual criminology has helped to reconfigure the ways we think about the endless stream of images that wash over our eyes every day. This crucial and critical field has remained, though, largely in the domains of the theoretical, conceptual, and historical. This important book urges visual criminology into the worlds of method and methodology, offering important and often-innovative techniques and tendencies which can equip visual criminologists with the tools necessary to bring this exciting field off the page and into the field. Consistently attentive to the fraught ethics of visual research on harm, crime, and violence, and uniquely engaged with the contemporary ascendance of digital technologies and their relation to the visual, this is an essential text for anyone from teachers to students to researchers wondering how – and why – to conduct visually attuned research in criminology.” (Bill McClanahan, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, USA)

Details

Link teilen