The visual vernacular: embracing photographs in research.

ABSTRACT: The increasing use of digital images for communication and interaction in everyday life can give a new lease of life to photographs in research. In contexts where smartphones are ubiquitous and many people are "digital natives", asking participants to share and engage with photographs aligns with their everyday activities and norms more than textual or analogue approaches to data collection. Thus, it is time to consider fully the opportunities afforded by digital images and photographs for research purposes. This paper joins a long-standing conversation in the social science literature to move beyond the "linguistic imperialism" of text and embrace visual methodologies. Our aim is to explain the photograph as qualitative data and introduce different ways of using still images/photographs f

SUBMITTER: Cleland J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8368779 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature