May
Visual Methods in the Social Sciences
The Lund Social Science Methods Centre invites you to a workshop on visual methods with keynote Nicole Milman-Doerr, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, where she is the director of CoMMonS Research Center for Studies of Political Mobilisation and Social Movements at the Department of Sociology.
Drawing on interdisciplinary theories and visual qualitative and computational methods in visual and cultural studies, media and digital communication, narrative, gender studies, and discourse analysis, this workshop will critically investigate how images are constructed and spread in digital publics and news media, among policy makers and in globalized arenas of affective politics, violent conflict, and protest. Strategies of visual persuasion, visual storytelling, and the transformative ‘power of images’ have been studied by media theorists, art historians and by empirical analysts of gender, culture, media, discourse and transnational social movements. We discuss how journalists, bloggers, artists, indigenous and BIPoC activists or non-profit organizations and gender theorists try to challenge autocratic images and stigmatizing representations, and we investigate how cultural codes, familiar stories and specific stereotypes shape the boundaries of democracy and public participation. This workshop is fairly empirical and based on international collaborative projects with theorists of art, computer vision and qualitative methods.
No registration is needed for this seminar.
Organiser
Alison Gerber, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology
Welcome!
Arranged by: Lund Social Science Methods Centre
About the event
Location:
Sh107, Gamla köket (School of Social Work), Allhelgona Kyrkogata 8, Lund
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Target group:
Everyone (inside and outside the University)
Language:
In English
Contact:
alison [dot] gerber [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se