Coherency in Visual methods

• Being a good interviewer includes listening, observing, and reflecting
• Pitfalls of interviews include?

  • Interviewer bias - power and social control
  • Failed rapport
  • Time demanding
• Polysemic analysis focuses is on multiple interpretations and meanings, acknowledging the subjective nature of interpretation.
• Thematic analysis focuses is on identifying common themes or patterns across a dataset, this is why it is limited by visual analysis
• Dialogical image (polysemic analysis approach) negotiates meaning for viewer or researcher
• Mimesis act of imitation or reflection of participants lifeworlds through visual imagery
• Mastering and executing visual analysis involves 5 steps (ive)(got)(king)(charles)(captured)(indefinitely) what does this stand for?

  • Identify the topic & scope of data
  • Grid, plot & defamiliarise
  • Key categories, examples & discrepancies
  • Countering and Ordering categories, linking & constructing new story
  • Interpretation & writing
• What is the first two steps in mastering visual analysis?


  Identifying the topic/scope, and griding/ plotting data
• What are the third and fourth steps of mastering visual analysis?

  Developing key categories, countering/ ordering/ constructing a new story