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INFO 272. Qualitative Research Methods
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Outline
1) The status of images in society
2) Compositional interpretation – some vocabulary
3) Content Analysis of Images
4) Semiotic Analysis
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Seeing is Believing?
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Source: http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/evening-standard-crowd.htm
A New Era of Digitally Doctored Images
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Source: http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/evening-standard-crowd.htm
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Compositional Interpretation1. content – what is the
image of? Religious, historical, literary themes/events
2. color – hue, saturation, value/brightness
3. spatial organization – perspective, point of view, eye level
4. light source
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Compositional InterpretationMoving Images
1. Screen ratio
2. Screen frame – open or closed
3. Screen plane
4. Shot distance
5. Focus
6. Angle
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Compositional InterpretationMoving Images
1. Revolving: Pan, Tilt
2. Tracking, Crane
3. Zoom
Editing
1. Continuity cut (classic Hollywood)
2. Jump cuts (MTV)
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Text Units:
Clearly distinguishable units: word, sentence, proposition
vs. Image Units:
Units within a static image are unclear.
Moving images are relatively continuous.
Content Analysis of Images
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Content Analysis of ImagesCategories must be:1. Exhaustive
2. Exclusive
3. Enlightening
This is not the same as the iterative, emergent coding we’ve been practicing.
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(Lutz and Collins 1993)
Content Analysis of Images
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Content Analysis of ImagesHow photos were coded:1. World location2. Unit of article organization (region, nation-state,
ethnic group, other)…1. Camera gaze of person photographed2. Westerners in photo3. Skin color4. Dress style (“western” or local)5. Male nudity6. Female nudity7. Technological type present (simple handmade
tools, machinery)
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What exactly do frequencies mean? Does more often mean more important?
What about important omissions? Good coding schemes need extensive
piloting, trial and error Binary nature of codes
Shortcomings of Content Analysis
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Semiology/Semiotics
1. Language is relational not referential
2. Signifier, signified, referent Furthermore – icon, index, symbol
3. Studying how signs come together and work as codes
Denotation (a baby, base-level meaning) vs. connotation (higher-level meaning, i.e. innocence)
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Semiology/Semiotics
Two main research issues:
1. Analysis of signs in systems of relations through which they get their meaning
2. How a particular sign system divides up the world (and what are the social implications)
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Semiotics: Method
1. denotational phase, list all elements in the image and any accompanying text
2. ask what does each element connote?
3. how do the elements relate to each other in the totalit?
4. what cultural knowledges are required in order to read the material? (connection to wider systems of meaning)
[source: Bauer and Gaskell]
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Semiotics: Advertisements
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Semiotics: Example
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Implicit presumption about readers as ‘cultural dupes’
Elaborate, perhaps overly complex terminology
Lack of concern with surrounding social practices – but see ‘social semiotics’
Shortcomings of Semiotics
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Summary
Content analysis on large quantities of text/imagery (news media)
Semiotics on persuasive/rhetorical texts/imagery (advertisements)
Semiotics requires substantial cultural knowledge
How do we handle what is notably absent, concealed?
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Visual Methodologies, Gillian Rose – highly recommended
Williamson, Decoding Advertisements
Lutz and Collins, Reading National Geographic
Saussure, Pierce, and/or Barthes
Further Reading