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Author Nathansohn, Regev

Title Sociology of the Visual Sphere
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Sociology
Routledge advances in sociology.
Contents Sociology of the Visual Sphere; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables and Graphs; 1 Sociology of the Visual Sphere: Introduction; Part I Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual; 2 The Limits of the Visual in the "War without Witness"; 3 From a Slight Smile to Scathing Sarcasm: Shades of Humor in Israeli Photojournalism; 4 Sociology of Iconoclasm: Distrust of Visuality in the Digital Age; 5 Picturing "Gender": Iconic Figuration, Popularization, and the Contestation of a Key Discourse in the New Europe
Part II New Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual6 Production of Solidarities in YouTube: A Visual Study of Uyghur Nationalism; 7 On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces; 8 Representing Perception: Integrating Photo Elicitation and Mental Maps in the Study of Urban Landscape; 9 Operations of Recognition: Seeing Urbanizing Landscapes with the Feet; Contributors; Index
Summary This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the first (""Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual"") focuses on the meanings of the visual sphere, and the second (""New Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual"") explores various sociological research methods to getting a better understanding of the visual sphere. We approach the visual sphere sociologically bec
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Subject Visual sociology.
Visual sociology
Form Electronic book
Author Zuev, Dennis
ISBN 9781135075972
1135075972