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Street Ethnography
Street ethnography is an emerging research approach that focuses on public exterior spaces… sidewalks, parks, neighbourhood spaces. Both the ethnographer and the ethnographic participants are moving...
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Using aerial photographs
Aerial photography has been around for a long time ~ indeed there was a time living on the Canadian prairies where aerial photographers took pictures and then sold them to farmers, a sort of...
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Detroit ~ understanding urban development and decay through urban exploration...
Detroit has become a living laboratory for studying the creation and decline of urban industrial cities. The scale of deterioration in Detroit far exceeds that of other declining urban areas. Detroit...
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Humans of New York (HONY)
The Humans of New York (or HONY) is a photography project started by one person in 2010 and has developed into a blog with images and snippets of stories from New Yorkers. Brandon Stanton, the...
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Meet The Somalis ~ illustrated stories of Somalis in seven cities in Europe
You might have just seen Captain Phillips, the movie starring Tom Hanks as the real life Captain Phillips, commander of a Maerck shipping freighter hijacked by Somali pirates. The movie gives a wee...
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Dissertation writing, at the margins
Although PhD students have much greater freedom to explore alternative ways of doing their dissertation research and presenting what they have learned, I suspect the academy is still pretty...
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Infographics as data representation
There are ever more good examples of using images to illustrate big data, trends, and connections. A nice example is the Environmental Justice Atlas, an EU project to catalogue “ecological distribution...
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Photo essays
Photo essays have been around for a long time ~ they are a series of photos, sometimes with captions, descriptive and/or explanatory text. Usually photo essays illustrate something that is more...
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people and stuff ~ a few more thoughts on material culture
Consider this strategy suggested by Ali McCannell, a UBC graduate student ~ if you want to know what matters to people in a particular community, city, country visit a convenience or corner store and...
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crowd sourcing images as data
Crowd sourcing is an interesting strategy for data collection that I’ve written about and you can read about it here. Here is another example of crowd sourcing images around a topic, in this case the...
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the power of images
This image, a family photograph, taken by Hannah Hawkes Photography has gone viral. Mostly people are outraged. The image is a disturbing one, to be sure… a mother and her daughters with their mouths...
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streetscapes & architecture ~ sources of material culture
Camilo Jose Vergara’s project Tracking Time is a repository of images of poor, urban American built environments. Returning year after year, Vergara photographs the same buildings and streetscapes to...
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Filmmaking and Research
Can filmmaking deepen and broaden the scope of rigorous scholarship? On June 27, 2016, Joel Bakan, Phillip Vannini and Charles Menzies discussed this question. Organized by UBC’s Public Scholars...
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Story Maps
A story map visually displays data in relation to places, location, or geography, and story mapping is the process of finding and analyzing the connections among human experience and place. Story maps...
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Illustrated Interviews
Interviews are a series of questions and answers and as social scientists we presume both use words. More common in the arts community is the possibility answers can be entirely or partly in the form...
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Infographics as data representation
There are ever more good examples of using images to illustrate big data, trends, and connections. A nice example is the Environmental Justice Atlas, an EU project to catalogue “ecological distribution...
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Photo essays
Photo essays have been around for a long time ~ they are a series of photos, sometimes with captions, descriptive and/or explanatory text. Usually photo essays illustrate something that is more...
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people and stuff ~ a few more thoughts on material culture
Consider this strategy suggested by Ali McCannell, a UBC graduate student ~ if you want to know what matters to people in a particular community, city, country visit a convenience or corner store and...
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crowd sourcing images as data
Crowd sourcing is an interesting strategy for data collection that I’ve written about and you can read about it here. Here is another example of crowd sourcing images around a topic, in this case the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
the power of images
This image, a family photograph, taken by Hannah Hawkes Photography has gone viral. Mostly people are outraged. The image is a disturbing one, to be sure… a mother and her daughters with their mouths...
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