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Book Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology

Download or read book Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology written by Luc Pauwels and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.

Book Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology

Download or read book Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology written by Luc Pauwels and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology part A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.

Book Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology

Download or read book Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology written by Luc Pauwels and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.

Book Learning Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Nichols
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-03-29
  • ISBN : 981108100X
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Learning Cities written by Sue Nichols and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied linguistics and sensory studies, this collection of papers develops and demonstrates the connection between experience, in all its dimensions, and informal learning in the city. The chapters discuss various sensory domains of experience, considering visual, embodied, and even sexual dimensions in relation to what and how learning operates, and the contributors reflect on their learning and inquiring experiences in the city, with special reference to topics such as narrativity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, equity, urban literacy, re-generation, participation, representation and oral histories.

Book Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps

Download or read book Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps written by Rebecca Noone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps explores the mundane act of navigating cities in the age of digital mapping infrastructures. Noone follows the frictions routing through Google Maps’ categorising and classifying of spatial information. Complicating the assumption that digital maps distort a sense of direction, Noone argues that Google Maps’ location awareness does more than just organise and orient a representation of space—it also organises and orients imaginaries of publicness, selfsufficiency, legibility, and error. At the same time, Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps helps to animate the ordinary ways people are challenging and refusing Google Maps’ vision of the world. Drawing on an arts-based field study spanning the streets of London, New York, London, Toronto, and Amsterdam, Noone’s encounters of "asking for directions" open up lines of inquiry and spatial scores that cut through Google‘s universal mapping project. Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps will be essential reading for information studies and media studies scholars and students with an interest in embodied information practices, critical information studies, and critical data studies. The book will also appeal to an urban studies audience engaged in work on the digital city and the datafication of urban environments.

Book Reframing Visual Social Science

Download or read book Reframing Visual Social Science written by Luc Pauwels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing visible behavior of people and material products of culture. This book provides scholars, students, artists and professionals with a systematic and analytical presentation and discussion of methods and techniques to visually study and communicate culture and society.

Book Research in Urban Sociology

Download or read book Research in Urban Sociology written by Mark Clapson and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents contributions in comparative suburban studies for urban regions, not just in Europe and the United States but also metropolitan regions in China, India and other areas of the world. This title examines the patterns of suburban development in metropolitan regions around the globe.

Book Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements

Download or read book Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements written by Nicole Doerr and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in Europe.

Book Everyday Life in the Segmented City

Download or read book Everyday Life in the Segmented City written by Camilla Perrone and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City", held in July 2010, Florence, gathered a multiplicity of approaches and points of view dealing with issues of global urbanization. This title contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference.

Book Multimodality  Meaning  and Institutions

Download or read book Multimodality Meaning and Institutions written by Markus A. Höllerer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the relationship between different modes in the emergence, diffusion, maintenance, and/or challenge of social meanings and institutions. The contributions demonstrate the potential of multimodal approaches to advance the design of rigorous methods of analysis for the study of multimodal communicative practices.

Book Urban Sociology

    Book Details:
  • Author : William G. Flanagan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2010-01-16
  • ISBN : 1442201908
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Urban Sociology written by William G. Flanagan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime, it provides an analysis of the spatial distribution of population and resources with regard to the metropolitanization of the urban form, and the interaction between urban concentration and development and underdevelopment. From a first chapter that begins with a discussion of some of the more micrological features of the urban experience, the text focuses on the significance of the more macrological cultural, social organizational, and political dimensions of urban change, in an historical span that includes the first cities and concludes with an exploration of the implications of cyberspace, transnationalism, and global terrorism for the future of urban sociology. While the work focuses primarily on the North American case, its analytical and integrated discussion makes it applicable to urban societies in general.

Book Being Urban

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Karp
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2015-09-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Being Urban written by David A. Karp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective. Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their daily experiences as urbanites. This thoroughly updated edition of Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life remains true to this particular theoretical angle of vision—the symbolic interactionist approach—focusing on specific topics that are relatively neglected in other urban sociology texts, and that lend themselves to the kind of social-psychological analyses that define the distinctive conceptual core of the authors' efforts. After the first two chapters supply readers with theoretical foundations of urban sociology, the next four chapters describe the various ways that individuals experience and make sense of key aspects of urban life. The final section—also composed of four chapters—addresses strategically chosen urban institutions and related processes of social change. Specific subject areas covered include sports, everyday public life, tolerance for diversity, women in cities, urban politics, and the arts. Readers will learn about how order is maintained in public urban places, understand why cities naturally breed a tolerance for diversity that may not be so easily achieved in less urban settings, and appreciate the delicate political and economic tensions between cities and their surrounding suburbs.

Book Seeing Cities Change

Download or read book Seeing Cities Change written by Jerome Krase and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. This book presents studies of various cities on both sides of The Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in "contested terrains" is changing the faces of cities.

Book Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Download or read book Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences written by Stephen Spencer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Awakening Visions is an indispensable resource for students, researchers and teachers seeking to use visual sources in their research and understand how images work. This fully updated edition adds questions and activities for studies and many new images and models as well as additional exploration of social and theoretical contexts and examples of current visual and multimodal research. Due to the proliferation of image-centric social media and the growing potential for ‘fake news’, being able to critically assess media and other visual messages is more important than ever. For researchers embarking on visual research this book offers useful practical guidance and real-world examples from seasoned researchers exploring cultures as varied as: religious cults in Venezuela, the Beer Can Regatta in Darwin, Mapuche Indians in Chile and graffiti artists in Sheffield. It offers an integrated approach to visual research, building compelling case studies using a wide range of visual forms, including: archive images, media samples, maps, objects, video, photographs and drawings alongside traditional qualitative approaches. Examples of the visual construction of ‘place’, representations of social identities and different approaches to analysis are explored in the first section of the book, whilst the essays in the second section highlight the creativity and innovation of four leading visual researchers. This new edition will prove valuable for both experienced visual researchers and those embarking on visual research in the social sciences for the first time.

Book Visual Political Communication

Download or read book Visual Political Communication written by Anastasia Veneti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication. The advent of new media technologies have created new ways of producing, disseminating and consuming visual communication, the book hence explores the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of visual political communication in the digital age, and how visual communication is employed in a number of key settings. The book is intended as a specialist reading and teaching resource for courses on media, politics, citizenship, activism, social movements, public policy, and communication.

Book Contemporary Urban Sociology

Download or read book Contemporary Urban Sociology written by William G. Flanagan and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date overview of issues and debates in contemporary urban sociology. It is both a guide to, and a critical analysis of, the major theoretical approaches to the field.

Book Expanding the Linguistic Landscape

Download or read book Expanding the Linguistic Landscape written by Martin Pütz and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a forum for theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to research on language(s), multimodality and public space, which will advance new ways of understanding the sociocultural, ideological and historical role of communication practices and experienced lives in a globalised world. Linguistic Landscape is viewed as a metaphor and expanded to include a wide variety of discursive modalities: imagery, non-verbal communication, silence, tactile and aural communication, graffiti, smell, etc. The chapters in this book cover a range of geographical locations, and capture the history, motives, uses, causes, ideologies, communication practices and conflicts of diverse forms of languages as they may be observed in public spaces of the physical environment. The book is anchored in a variety of theories, methodologies and frameworks, from economics, politics and sociology to linguistics and applied linguistics, literacy and education, cultural geography and human rights.