Presented at IVSA 2010 Conference, Bologna, 20th July 2010 - Recent opportunities offered by the Web 2.0 for improving intersubjectivity in visual research, and the consequences of these changes for doing research. Notes at http://www.scribd.com/doc/34700530/The-Web-2-0-opportunities-and-challenges-for-visual-research-text
The Web 2.0: opportunities and challenges for visual research
1. The Web 2.0: opportunities and
challenges for improving the
intersubjectivity of control
Agnese Vardanega
Univ. of Teramo, Italy
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2. Summary
Background: intersubjectivity and visual research
Web 2.0: tools and opportunities in a methodological
perspective
Publishing / Sharing
Comments / Participatory interpretation
New uses of visual materials
Changes in research practices
Web 2.0: new challenges
Digital divide
Copyright / acknowledgement
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3. Does intersubjectivity imply
intersubjective agreement?
Intersubjective experience in common sense
Intersubjective experience in science
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4. Intersubjectivity
Control over procedures and data
guaranteed by the publication of the results
Tables and graphs
Visual, and audiovisual materials
Public discussion and criticism
Publication on the Internet provides new
“affordances” related to all these activities
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6. Texts and visuals
Sometimes, text
analysis is visual analysis
… and vice versa
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7. Rough or interpreted materials?
Categories
Definition
Normally, visuals are presented together with illustrative
texts (captions, references etc)
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8. Social web and interpretation
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9. Questions and challenges
Digital Divide
destitute groups
Underprivileged countries and regions
Copyright and recognition of authorship
Resistance to the use of the Internet to spread
unpublished works and preprints
Less resistance to the publication of visuals, where
common creative licences are widely accept
Collective platforms, such as Hypotheses.org (Fr) or
Edublogs.org (Usa)
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10. New ways for making “social” visual
research?
Publishing and sharing materials
Using comments
Allowing
Publishing and analysing
Elicitating to involve participants, scholars, students
and/or stakeholders
Enlarged definition of “intersubjectivity”
New forms for integrating textual and visual
material
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