MEETING ABOUT THE BOOK „VISUAL RESEARCH IN ACTION. AN ANTHOLOGY OF TEXTS"

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is the status of the image in social research? The publication fills a gap in academic studies of visual research methodologies and strategies for their use in analyses and changes in contemporary socio-cultural realities.

 

This is not one of the many books on visual culture in general, but a collection of texts which, where examples of specific research illustrate why and how to use the image in analyses of social life, concerning both universal and contemporary issues – new media, inequality, social change, knowledge, health and illness, and urban identity. The common denominator here is the study of society by means of the visual, first-hand and mediated by various technologies for emission and recording of images.

 

 

The publication contains texts not yet published in Poland, including:

 

John Berger Understanding a photograph;

 

Marisol Clark Ibáñez Framing the Social World with Photo-Elicitation Interviews;

 

Elizabeth Edwards, Janice Hart Photographs as Objects;

 

John Grady Advertising Images as Social Indicators;

 

Hubert Knoblauch The Performance of Knowledge: Pointing and Knowledge in Powerpoint Presentations;

 

Sarah Pink Doing Visual Ethnography;

 

Michael Rich, Richard Chalfen Showing and Telling Asthma: Children Teaching Physicians with Visual Narratives;

 

Dirk vom Lehn, Christian Heath Discovering Exhibits: Video-Based Studies of Interaction in Museums and Science Centres.

 

 

Maciej Frackowiak (born 1985) – sociologist, works on the image, trying to treat it as a tool and a pretext for research, and changes in social relations. Author of exhibitions, speeches and texts in this field. Participant and co-coordinator of the Invisible City project. Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant-holder and the Kulczyków Family Foundation.

 

Krzysztof Olechnicki (born 1969) – Associate Professor, employee at the NCU Institute of Sociology, Head of Cultural Research. He is interested in the sociology and anthropology of the image, social anthropology, sociology of religion, and new social movements. Grant-holder from the weekly "Polityka" (Stay with us and the Foundation for Polish Science Campaigns). Author of several books, editor of "Iconosphere. Studies in the Sociology and Anthropology of the Image". 

The meeting will be accompanied by screenings from the Invisible City project by Marek Krajewski

 

Marek Krajewski (born 1969) – sociologist, professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Author of numerous articles on popular culture, and consumerism and art. Curator of the AMS Outdoor Gallery (1998-2004) and the initiator of the Invisible City project.