Researching visually using visual ethnographic methodology

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Dr. J. Vijay Ratna Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
Culture Material ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology

According to Sarah Pink (2001) defines the visual ethnographic as the use of visual images and technologies such as video, film, photography, art, drawing and sculpture in qualitative social research to both produce and represent knowledge. It includes using the visual as a documenting tool to produce visual records, in interviews, to elicit comments from informants, in participant observation to research ways of seeing and understanding, analysing visual and material culture and using visual media to represent the findings of such research. Visual ethnography deals with the visual and perceptual study of culture, material culture and forms of human behaviour in different communities and environments. Visually we can communicate knowledge and experience and ideas in ways that we never express in written words or spoken words, in social research, the visual is gaining significance as a research method.

scholarly journals Ethical Dilemmas Using Social Media in Qualitative Social Research: A Case Study of Online Participant Observation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kath Hennell ◽  
Mark Limmer ◽  
Maria Piacentini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media platforms that enable users to create and share online content with others are used increasingly in social research. This article explores the complex ethical issues associated with using social media for data collection, drawing on a study of the alcohol consumption practices of young people. It aims to contribute to debates about the practical and ethical challenges facing researchers using social media as a data collection tool, and to demonstrate how a reflexive approach to the research and the context in which the research takes place is critically important for supporting and enabling an ethical approach. The article concludes by recommending that researchers who face ethical dilemmas associated with the use of social media maintain an ongoing dialogue with their relevant ethics committees and other researchers to identify potential solutions and to share their findings.

scholarly journals Tensão entre racionalidades: estudo de caso da associação de catadores de materiais recicláveis de Lavras (ACAMAR)

ForScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e00788
Author(s):  
Camila Pereira de Souza ◽  
Valderí de Castro Alcântara ◽  
Alyce Cardoso Campos ◽  
Ananda Silveira Bacelar ◽  
Érica Aline Ferreira Silva Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Instrumental Action ◽  
The City

O presente trabalho trata de uma pesquisa social qualitativa, realizada em um empreendimento econômico solidário de catadores de materiais recicláveis, na cidade de Lavras, Minas Gerais. O objetivo do estudo consiste em compreender os efeitos das tensões entre as racionalidades substantiva e instrumental na gestão da ACAMAR (Associação de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Lavras). Para a coleta de dados foram utilizadas técnicas de pesquisa documental, observação participante e entrevista semiestruturada. As análises ocorreram em quatro momentos: investigação de cada elemento constitutivo de ação substantiva e instrumental; mapeamento dos indicadores predominantes; identificação das tensões existentes; e compreensão dos efeitos das tensões no cotidiano organizacional e na gestão. Os resultados alcançados mostraram que a maioria das ações administrativas da ACAMAR são subsidiadas tanto pela lógica substantiva quanto pela lógica instrumental e, por conseguinte, as tensões entre elas são frequentes no cotidiano do empreendimento e nos processos de gestão. Mostrou-se também que os catadores lidam com a tensão na ACAMAR de duas formas: nada fazem a respeito, na medida em que não reconhecem sua existência; ou, ao reconhecerem sua existência tentam eliminá-la, porque a consideram indesejável. Portanto, em razão dessa forma na qual as tensões são encaradas pelos associados, o ambiente interno da Associação é marcado, mesmo com traços de substantividade por atritos, apatia, insatisfação, sentimento de não realização humana e não melhoria do êxito produtivo. Palavras-chave: Racionalidade Substantiva. Racionalidade Instrumental. Tensões. Tension between rationalities: case study of the association of collectors of recyclable materials of Lavras (ACAMAR) Abstract The present work dealswith a qualitative social research, carried out in a solidary economic enterprise of recyclable material collectors, in the city of Lavras, Minas Gerais. The aim of the study is to understand the effects of tensionsbetween substantive and instrumental rationalities in the management of ACAMAR (Associação de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Lavras). For data collection, documentary research techniques, participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used. The analyzes took place in four moments: analysis of each constitutive element of substantive and instrumental action; mapping of the predominant indicators; identification of existing tensions; and understanding the effects of tensions on organizational and management daily life. The results achieved showed that most of ACAMAR's administrative actions are subsidized by both substantive and instrumental logic and, therefore, tensions between them are frequent in the daily life of the enterprise and in the management processes. It was also shown that waste pickers deal with the tension at ACAMAR in two ways: they do nothing about it, insofar as they do not recognize its existence, or when they recognize its existence, they try to eliminate it, because they consider it undesirable. Therefore, due to the way in which tensions are faced by members, the internal environment of the Association is marked despite the traces of substantivity by friction, apathy, dissatisfaction, a feeling of human lack of fulfillment and an improvement in productive success. Keywords: Substantive rationality. Instrumental rationality. Tensions.

Narrated Photography

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Sarah Dunlop ◽  
Peter Ward
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Visual Context ◽  
Textual Material ◽  
Shed Light

This article describes how a recently refined visual ethnographic research method, “narrated photography,” contributes to the study of religion. We argue that this qualitative research method is particularly useful for studies of lived religion and demonstrate this through examples drawn from a study the sacred among young Polish migrants to England. Narrated photography, which entails asking people to photograph what is personally significant to them and then to narrate the image, generates visual and textual material that mediates the subjective. Through using this method we discovered that family was considered to be sacred, both in terms of links to religious practice and a desire for a secure home which family relationships provide. Additionally, narrated photography has the potential to expand our conceptions of lived religion through the inclusion of visual material culture and the visual context of the research participants. In this case the data revealed that the Polish young people view structures within their landscape through a particularly Polish Catholic lens. These findings shed light on the religious tensions that migrants encounter in everyday life.

Value creation through appreciation? An exploration of the perception of diversity management in a transnational aviation group

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Scherle
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Diversity Strategy

In view of certain socio-cultural and economic meta-processes, workforce diversity or diversity management become an increasingly important entrepreneurial success factor. Yet, the scholarly examination of diversity in the tourism and hospitality sector is still in its infancy; a fact that applies to qualitative studies in particular. This paper addresses the perception of diversity and diversity management within one of the world’s leading aviation corporations, the Lufthansa Group. Following the methodological principles of qualitative social research, this study reports the results of a survey of Lufthansa flight attendants, a stakeholder group that interacts like no other in the area of overlap between the corporation and its customers. Specifically, the survey focuses on Lufthansa’s diversity strategy – based on the principle of ‘value creation through appreciation’ – and how it is perceived by representatives of the cabin crew, in an attempt to identify potential conflicts and prejudices that may arise in the face of employee heterogeneity.

scholarly journals Forging Political Cadres for Re-Peasantization: Escuela de Acción Campesina (Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4061
Author(s):  
David Gallar-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Participatory Workshop ◽  
Global North ◽  
Training Schools ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
La Via Campesina

Bolstering the political formation of agrarian organizations has become a priority for La Vía Campesina and the Food Sovereignty Movement. This paper addresses the Spanish case study of the Escuela de Acción Campesina (EAC)—(Peasant Action School), which is a tool for political formation in the Global North in which the philosophical and pedagogical principles of the “peasant pedagogies” of the Training Schools proposed by La Vía Campesina are put into practice within an agrarian organization in Spain and in alliance with the rest of the Spanish Food Sovereignty Movement. The study was carried out over the course of the 10 years of activist research, spanning the entire process for the construction and development of the EAC. Employing an ethnographic methodology, information was collected through participant observation, ethnographic interviews, a participatory workshop, and reviews of internal documents. The paper presents the context in which the EAC arose, its pedagogical dynamics, the structure and the ideological contents implemented for the training of new cadres, and how there are three key areas in the training process: (1) the strengthening of collective union and peasant identity, (2) training in the “peasant” ideological proposal, and (3) the integration of students as new cadres into the organizations’ structures. It is concluded that the EAC is a useful tool in the ideological re-peasantization process of these organizations.

scholarly journals Electronic patient record and its effects on social aspects of interprofessional collaboration and clinical workflows in hospitals (eCoCo): a mixed methods study protocol

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Beckmann ◽  
Kerstin Dittmer ◽  
Julia Jaschke ◽  
Ute Karbach ◽  
Juliane Köberlein-Neu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Network Analyses

Abstract Background The need for and usage of electronic patient records within hospitals has steadily increased over the last decade for economic reasons as well as the proceeding digitalization. While there are numerous benefits from this system, the potential risks of using electronic patient records for hospitals, patients and healthcare professionals must also be discussed. There is a lack in research, particularly regarding effects on healthcare professionals and their daily work in health services. The study eCoCo aims to gain insight into changes in interprofessional collaboration and clinical workflows resulting from introducing electronic patient records. Methods eCoCo is a multi-center case study integrating mixed methods from qualitative and quantitative social research. The case studies include three hospitals that undergo the process of introducing electronic patient records. Data are collected before and after the introduction of electronic patient records using participant observation, interviews, focus groups, time measurement, patient and employee questionnaires and a questionnaire to measure the level of digitalization. Furthermore, documents (patient records) as well as structural and administrative data are gathered. To analyze the interprofessional collaboration qualitative network analyses, reconstructive-hermeneutic analyses and document analyses are conducted. The workflow analyses, patient and employee assessment analyses and classification within the clinical adoption meta-model are conducted to provide insights into clinical workflows. Discussion This study will be the first to investigate the effects of introducing electronic patient records on interprofessional collaboration and clinical workflows from the perspective of healthcare professionals. Thereby, it will consider patients’ safety, legal and ethical concerns and quality of care. The results will help to understand the organization and thereby improve the performance of health services working with electronic patient records. Trial registration The study was registered at the German clinical trials register (DRKS00023343, Pre-Results) on November 17, 2020.

scholarly journals Developing Entrepreneurial Spirit Based on Local Wisdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ahsan ◽  
Armanu Thoyib ◽  
Achmad Sudiro ◽  
Nur Khusniyah Indrawati
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Autonomous Institution

<p>The purpose of this paper is to explore of entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> (Islamic Boarding School) Sunan Drajat which led by Kyai Abdul Ghofur in local setting one of Islamic propagator legends in Indonesia, Sunan Drajat. The research method used ethnography approach. The techniques of collecting data used were participant observation, interview and focus group discussion. Techniques of analyzing data used were content analysis of interview, domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, component analysis and finding culture themes. The findings are entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat has been inspired by <em>catur</em><em> </em><em>piwulang</em> philosophy as the core in giving spirit to the students and local communities. The entrepreneurial spirit development has produced a distinctive model in preparing Islamic entrepreneur generations for the future. As practical implication, the findings can be used as reference to develop entrepreneurial development especially at <em>pesantren</em> in Indonesia. The model also can be used to motivate another <em>pesantren</em> to develop an institution through the local economic based activities to become autonomous institution and not depend on other parties. Originality of this research is to reveal the leadership role and local wisdom in developing entrepreneurial spirit at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat and the community surrounding.</p>

Seeing Justice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Angela Bock
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
The Way

Seeing Justice examines the way criminal justice in the United States is presented in visual media by focusing on the grounded practices of visual journalists in relationship with law enforcement. The book extends the concept of embodied gatekeeping, the corporeal and discursive practices connected to controlling visual media production and the complex ways social actors struggle over the construction of visual messages. Based on research that includes participant observation, extended interviews, and critical discourse analysis, the book provides a detailed examination of the way these practices shape media constructions and the way digitization is altering the relationships between media, citizens, and the criminal justice system. The project looks at contemporary cases that made the headlines through a theoretical lens based on the work of Michel Foucault, Walter Fisher, Stuart Hall, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Nick Couldry, and Roland Barthes. Its cases reveal the way powerful interests are able to shape representations of justice in ways that serve their purposes, occasionally at the expense of marginalized groups. Based on cases ranging from the last US public hanging to the proliferation of “Karen-shaming” videos, this monograph offers three observations. First, visual journalism’s physicality increases its reliance on those in power, making it easy for officials in the criminal justice system to shape its image. Second, image indexicality, even while it is subject to narrative negation, remains an essential affordance in the public sphere. Finally, participation in this visual public sphere must be considered as an essential human capability if not a human right.

scholarly journals work all the time- He just waits for the animals to come back” Social impacts of climate changes: A Greenlandic case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roanne Van Voorst
Keyword(s):  
Climate Changes ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

Understanding human adaptation to climate changes is one of the most important research issues within the area of global environmental change, accounting for the fact that people worldwide are currently adapting to their changing environment (Adger and Kelly 2000: 253; Smit et al. 2008). The Greenlandic case study as presented in this paper is mainly based on a literature analysis and ethnographic data obtained during the Greenlandic winter of 2008, with emphasis on the latter. Participant observation and interviews were combined with a discursive analysis of climate change-related policies. The empirical findings as presented in this paper suggest that an exclusive and gender-neutral focus of policy makers on economic aspects of adaptation to climate changes may increase socio-economic inequality as well as male domestic violence over women. Social research can help to identify such chains of reactions resulting from climate changes and related policies, by focusing on individual adaptation strategies of male and female actors in vulnerable societies.

scholarly journals Analysis funerary ceramics of the Plotnikovo burial ground (on the basis of the excavation 2007-2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
Natalya Gennadyevna Bryukhova ◽  
Nadezhda Sergeevna Batueva ◽  
Evgenia Leonidovna Lychagina
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Culture Material ◽  
Russian North ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Technological Analysis

The article analyzes the pottery Plotnikovo burial ground, which belongs to the Rodanovskaya culture. Material culture this time has not been well studied. Finds discovered during the excavations, it was quite diverse. Jewelry, weapon, tools and household items represent it. Some things are similar to the materials of the Russian North, the Volzhskaya Bulgaria and Perm Vychegodskaya. The study was conducted typological and technological analysis of the fragments of 52 vessels. For the site is characterized by proliferation of cup-shaped vessel with a flattened bottom and a loop handle, weak ornamentation dishes with the prevalence of the use of a comb stamp for applying the patterns, the use of clay in the wet state with the addition of crushed shells in the molding composition. A comparison with ceramic complexes chronologically simultaneous sites Vymskaya and Chepetskaya culture revealed both similarities and differences. These differences indicate the presence of its own tradition of producing ceramics in funerary XII-XV centuries of the population, left the Plotnikovo burial ground. The study material of the Plotnikovo burial ground is great interest to address the issues of ethno genesis Permian Komis and clarify the chronology of late stage rodanovskaya culture.

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