scholarly journals Visual Appropriation: A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Möller ◽  
Rasmus Bellmer ◽  
Rune Saugmann
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Visual Construction ◽  
Visual Materials

Abstract This article introduces visual appropriation as a method in critical international political thinking and acting, contributing to the evolving repertoire of multiple, pluralist methods for visual analysis of international relations operating in a digital visual environment. We define appropriation as reuse of existing visual material—either in its entirety or in part—without substantially altering the immanent characteristics of the appropriated material. As appropriators, scholars are producers of images who capitalize on and actively participate in digital visuality (seeing–changing–sharing). Appropriators are both image-analysts and image-actors but distinct from both, contributing not only to the visual analysis, but also to the visual construction of international relations. Approaching the international through appropriation grants researchers increased agency and responsibility vis-à-vis existing visual materials “out-there.” Rather than exploring a digital space of visual images produced and appropriated by others, researchers consciously and deliberately partake in the production and dissemination of images. As a result, we highlight how we—as scholars and as citizens—are facing research-ethical problematiques linked to ways of showing and seeing inevitably emanating from appropriation.

Visuality

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
William A. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Symbolic Analysis ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visual Artifacts ◽  
Visual Construction ◽  
Social Orders

Chapter 2 explores what is different about visual international relations—that is, how images can actively create sensible politics as visual performances that viscerally move and connect people. It develops the visuality strategy’s analysis of how images take on meaning and value through the visual construction of the social and the multisensory performance of the international. It thus expands on Chapter 1’s symbolic analysis of visual images to consider how “visual artifacts”—maps, veils, walls, gardens, and cyberspace—can shape IR as material modalities and sensory spaces that are experienced both individually and collectively. In this way, it develops the concept of “affective communities of sense” to move from assessing the ideological-value of visuals to appreciate their affect-work. Chapter 2 thus challenges the critique of ocular-centrism by outlining how the visuality strategy can help one appreciate how multisensory spaces can provoke social orders, world orders, and affective communities of sense.

Visual matters in learning and teaching

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Alexandra Howson
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Learning Enhancement ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Visual Materials

This article reports on the incorporation of visual material as a tool for learning sociology and discusses a poster assignment introduced as a means of assessment in an academic context committed to innovative learning strategies and to teaching and learning enhancement. The article draws on an evaluation of using the poster assignment to assess student learning and argues that visual images can provide valid and insightful ways of 'telling about society' which challenge the reliance on text as a means of teaching and learning sociology. The article explores the context in which visual materials are used in teaching and learning sociology and their impact on and significance for assessment and learning.

scholarly journals Why declare independence? Observing, believing, and performing the ritual

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Lucas Knotter
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Community ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
State Recognition ◽  
Political Performance ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
New Space

Abstract Declarations of independence continue to be commonplace in international affairs, yet their efficacy as means towards statehood remains disputed in traditional international legal and political thinking and conduct. Consequently, recent scholarship on state recognition and emerging statehood suggests that the international persistence of such declarations should be understood in the context of broader international processes, narratives, and assemblages of state creation. Such suggestions, however, risk reifying declarations’ effectiveness more in relation to international structure(s) than to independence movement's own agency. This article, therefore, calls for a reframing of declarations of independence as a ritual in international relations. It argues that participating in the international ritual of independence declaration forms an attempt to ‘fuse’ the movement's political practice with international recognition, serves to express an internal belief in ‘redemption’ through the ‘ascension’ into the ‘celestial’ existence of recognised statehood, and offers an opportunity to internally bolster political community through political performance. Ritual theory, thus, uncovers how the global persistence of independence declarations cannot be explained merely through discrete oppositions of non-recognition versus recognition, belief versus reality, and/or non-state versus state community, and instead opens up new space for understanding the contradictions characterising the international political (in)significance and persistence of statehood declarations.

scholarly journals ‘The message is the medium’: Evaluating the use of visual images to provoke engagement and active learning in politics and international relations lectures

Politics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Learning Behaviours

Globalization and digitization have combined to create a ‘pictorial turn’ that has transformed communication landscapes. Routine exposure to visual stimuli like images has acculturated our students’ learning processes long before their arrival at university. But when they reach us, we expose them to text-centric teaching out of kilter with the worlds from which they come. More importantly, emerging scholarship argues that such textual hegemony is out of kilter with how they learn. This article describes a 3-year experiment to assess the veracity of such claims. It found that student academic engagement was greater when apposite images were applied. In addition, the experiment revealed that introducing imagery triggered active learning behaviours. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for politics and international relations teaching.

scholarly journals Recovery of a vandalized canvas painting our Lady of the Rosary from Vrlika (Croatia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
Sandra Sustic ◽  
Ivan Rezic ◽  
Mario Cvetkovic
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Paint Layer ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Oil Painting ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Parish Community ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Painting On Canvas

This study is related to the major recovery project of an 18th century oil painting on canvas depicting Our Lady of the Rosary, the patron saint of the parish community of Vrlika and its surroundings. During the Croatian War of Independence in 1992 it was taken off the main altar and vandalized by the paramilitary units. This resulted in termination of a century long tradition of annual feasts in Vrlika in which the painting was publicly displayed and carried by the townsmen. Based on the available visual materials: a high resolution old black and white photograph and the low resolution coloured one, respectfully, using the computer colorization algorithm, and also relying on detailed visual analysis of the original paint layer, a major reconstruction was carried out in 2017. This research has demonstrated that the recovery of the artworks with dramatic losses is an extremely complex social phenomenon difficult to characterize by any general factor or based on any general approach.

scholarly journals The Influence Of Popular Culture On The Visual Music Album Cover

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Citra Kemala Putri
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Visual Music ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Aesthetic

Mass culture and popular culture is one of the important phenomena that was born after the postmodern era. In a society that lives in the midst of mass culture and popular culture, will grow consumer communities that produce new cultural symbols and activities. This discourse then influenced various aspects, for example, the emergence of popular music and popular art movements which soon became a commodities that was consumed by many youth people. This study discusses the influence of popular culture on the visuals of music album covers which take several album covers of international musicians from different time periods as samples to compare the similarities or friction caused by various art developments as their response toward happening trends. This study uses qualitative method. This study of various visual images was considering the aesthetic idioms of postmodernism, including Pastiche, Parody, Kitsch, Camp and Schizophrenia, as well as the concepts of several art movements, such as Pop Art and Lowbrow Art. The final result of this study reveal that several music albums using the Pop Art and Lowbrow Art style contained postmodern aesthetic idioms. Each album cover can contain one or several aesthetic idioms simultaneously.

The Application of Multimedia Technology in the Editing of Chemical Experimental Audio-Visual Materials

2011 ◽  
Vol 271-273 ◽  
pp. 1612-1617
Author(s):  
Shuo Zhang ◽  
Geng Xin ◽  
Yang Yun ◽  
Zou Bin ◽  
Li Ang Jian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
Important Direction ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Visual Materials

The application of experimental audio-visual materials is an effective form of electrical multi-media teaching assistant of experimental courses. The making of audio-visual material has far-reaching actual significance and it is also an important direction in the teaching reformation at present. Aiming at giving references for the ones who are working on chemical experimental editing works, this article introduces some useful editing skills combined with some concrete examples produced by Premiere Pro 2.0 in the editing of chemical experimental audio-visual materials.

Authentic Audio Visual Materials in Relation to Pronunciation Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Fatima A. Hmaid ◽  
Nada I. Shetwan ◽  
Hanan H. Eltaleb
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Listening And Speaking

The purpose of this research is to explore the perception, that is understanding based on awareness, knowledge and experiences, of teachers and students of the relationship between utilizing Authentic Audio Visual Materials (AAVMs) in the EFL classroom and pronunciation development. The total number of participants in this study is 26. The study employs the qualitative method of research and targets teachers and students who delivered/passed two specific courses, Phonetics I, II and Language Skills I, II ,III. These two courses are concerned with pronunciation teaching and development at the Faculty of Arts, Misurata University. While Phonetics targets pronunciation through linguistic knowledge, Language Skills are supposed to achieve that through listening and speaking activities. One-on-one detailed interviews, focus group interviews, open-ended questionnaires and observation sessions were the data collection instruments employed for this study. The findings of this study revealed that teachers and students have distinct perceptions of the relationship between utilizing AAVMs in the EFL classroom and pronunciation development. It was additionally attested that the lack of feedback and correction of pronunciation mistakes can have negative consequences on pronunciation development in the EFL classroom whereas providing students with feedback can have positive impacts on the pronunciation improvement process.

Patterns of Deceptive Communication of Social and Religious Issues in Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 490-502
Author(s):  
Poothullil Mathew Martin ◽  
Jerry Joseph Onampally
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Religious Communication ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Deceptive Communication ◽  
Rational Players

Deception and religion have evolved over the years. Deception and belief manipulation are aspects of religious communication. The digital space revolves around fake news and indicates that humans are more susceptible than ever to mental manipulation by powerful technological tools. This chapter demonstrates patterns in deceptive narrative usage in a communication of social and religious issues (CSRI) in social media among a religious community in Mumbai. Drawing from deception theory of David Ettingery and Philippe Jehiel, the exploitation by rational players of the fundamental attribution of error (FAE) made by other players, where FAE allows for belief manipulation. The authors propose that an increased presence of social media promotes patterns in CSRI in social media. The analysis depicted patterns in the preference to the use of text visual images, audio-visual, and audio formats when communicating social and religious issues.

Brexit a liberalna teoria stosunków międzynarodowych.

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Artur Niedźwiecki
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Decomposition Processes ◽  
Limited Applicability ◽  
Liberal Approach

Hereby paper is dedicated to the issue of Brexit in the context of liberal theory of international relations, mainly by adoption of the qualitative method of textual examination of selected works, devoted to the abovementioned paradigm. The hypothesis of this article is a statement that liberal approach has a limited applicability to description of community disintegration mechanisms, including Brexit as their unquestionable syndrome. Existing theories of European integration, of which liberalism is one of the most influential theoretical schemes, reveal several malfunctions in exploration of Union’s decomposition processes, however, on the other hand, some of their specific components still remain valid. The above issue exposes a demand for investigating new tools and researching methods to scrutinize current trends in the European Union that would allow to review the present state of this organization in a more adequate manner.

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