Henwood, Karen  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-5468, Shirani, Fiona and Finn, Mark
2020.
‘So you think we’ve moved, changed, the representation got more what?’: methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the men-as-fathers study.
Reavey, Paula, ed.
A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research 2nd Edition,
Routledge,
pp. 555-571.
(10.4324/9781351032063-3732)
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Abstract
Within the social sciences generally, and qualitative psychology specifically, realisation is growing of the value of working with data in different media, for giving researchers access to different modalities of meaning. Equally important is the coincidence of visual and technological literacy with the promotion of a more reflexive, perspectival understanding of the principles and practices of knowledge generation. Visual methods have been described as the ‘oldest new methods in qualitative research’ but, whilst photographs have been a central aspect of some sociologists’ work for decades, visual research methods have experienced a sudden surge in popularity. Photo-elicitation is a multimodal technique for studying what people see in, and say about, pictures. It provides ways of combining the visual and verbal by using pre-existing, researcher- or participant-generated images, encouraging their careful and creative viewing by study participants, and eliciting extensive, verbalised responses to their symbolic qualities.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9781138491793 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2025 14:30 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135317 |
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