Visual research methods : image, society, and representation

Contents : - / Introduction : images, methodologies, and generating social knowledge / Gregory C. Stanczak -- Observing culture and social life : documentary photography, fieldwork, and social research / Jon Wagner -- All photos lie : images as data / Barry M. Goldstein -- Capturing the visual traces of historical change : the Internet mission photography archive / Jon Miller -- The failure of "the president's choice" / Erina Duganne -- Using photography in studies of immigrant communities : reflecting across projects and populations / Steven J. Gold -- Inner-city children in sharper focus : sociology of childhood and photo-elicitation interviews / Marisol Clark-Ib?a?nez -- When words are not enough : eliciting children's experiences of Buddhist monastic life through photographs / Jeffrey Samuels -- Signs of resistance : marking public space through a renewed cultural activism / Emmanuel A. David -- Performances, confessions, and identities : using video diaries to research sexualities / Ruth Holliday -- The symbolism of video : exploring migrant mothers' experiences / Yolanda Hernandez-Albujar -- Website design : the precarious blend of narrative, aesthetics, and social theory / Stephen Papson, Robert Goldman, and Noah Kersey