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The purpose of this presentation is to lay out thoughts ad generate discussions and ideas about using inter-disciplinary principles of visual research methods applied to images stored in social media, as well as social network analysis on groups, individuals, images, and documents. Then blend the two to identify hard to find problems or build agenda for investigation and actually investigate significant environmental and occupational health issues. In addition to laying out thoughts, some indicative images and instances of social network analyses have been provided in this description.

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Exploring Relationships in Environmental and Occupational Health Research Using VM and

SNA

Arindam BasuUniversity of Canterbury,

International Visual Methods Conference,2013

Wellington

Purpose

• Discuss - How Can Environmental Occupational Health Issues be framed using a combination of Social Network Analysis and Image Analysis

How Do We See Into Hard to Access Spaces and Explore Relationships in Environmental and Occupational Health with Visual Research

Methods and Social Network Analysis?

Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods

Environmental and Occupational Health

Social Network Analysis

Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods

Environmental and Occupational Health

Social Network Analysis

Where We Frame Issues and Agenda

Image Sharing Social Media Apps

The important bit here is that, each of these sites should allow media as social media where people participate to upload, share, tag, comment, and enrich the media in many ways …

Visual Materials and Interpretation

Environmental Health in India: Climate change Pictures

Photos Were Obtained from Flickr by searching the flickr database with keywords “India” and “Climate Change” all years

Occupational Health and Laborers in India: What Issues Come out?

Occupational Health and Labourers: Issues?

All these photos were obtained on the basis of royalty free images searching Flickr for tags that included “India” AND “labourer” OR “laborer”, all years

Images of Water Pollution in India

Images of water pollution

Images of Air Pollution in India

Images of Air Pollution in India

Images of Air Pollution in India

Images of Air Pollution in India

Images of Air Pollution in India

Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods

Environmental and Occupational Health

Social Network Analysis

Space where we find out target population, at-risk people and spaces

Use of Social Network Analysis

• Map the Social Network• Centrality• Density• Homophily• Between-ness• Structural Holes

Social Network Structure of Personal Facebook Links

Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods

Environmental and Occupational Health

Social Network Analysis

Where the research team, the output, the publication plan, the background research …

Social Network Diagram of a Public Health Professional Group in Facebook

Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods

Environmental and Occupational Health

Social Network Analysis

The Multi- and the Inter-disciplinary Space where work gets done, and study/practice conducted …

A Roadmap

Start with A Search of the Overall Broad Based Topic in Visual Social Media

Deep Visual Methods Analysis of the Images

Social Network Analysis of Connectedness of Authors and Images

Identify significant health issues around Environmental and Occupational Exposure and Build up an Investigation Process

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