Includes bibliographical references and index. Banks, M., & Zeitlyn, D. (2015). Visual methods in social research (2nd ed.). Los Angeles : SAGE.

Reading pictures -- The trouble with pictures -- An introductory example -- Unnatural vision -- Reading narratives -- Planning a research project with visual methods -- Encountering the visual -- On television -- Visual forms I: representation of society -- Visual forms produced II: representation of knowledge -- Visual forms encountered -- 'Us' and 'them'? -- Material vision -- Object and representation -- The materiality of visual forms -- Exchanged goods -- Size matters -- Transformations: digitization and computer-based media -- Research strategies -- Silk thread to plastic bags -- Researching image use and production in social contexts -- Watching television -- Doing things with photographs and films -- Working with archival material -- Making images -- Observing -- Creating images for research -- Documentation -- Collaborative projects-- Indigenous media collaborations -- Ethics and visual research -- Returning images -- Presenting research results -- Audiences -- Presenting photographs -- Presenting ethnographic and other films -- Databases and digital images -- Multimedia projects -- Copyright -- Perspectives on visual research -- The state of visual research -- The place of visual research -- The nature of visual research

Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches.