Rose, Visual Methodologies Questions

For this week's response, we were to generate a list of questions from the required readings. Questions from Chapters 1, 2 and 12 of Gillian Rose’s Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials are found below.

Questions from Chapter 1, "Researching with Visual Materials: A Brief Survey"

1.     Rose mentions the “tourist gaze” as coined by John Urry. To what extent, if at all, is this gaze derived from/related to the “male gaze” as we read in Sturken and Cartwright’s, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture?

2.     Within section 1.2, “Understanding the Social Effects of Visual Materials,” Rose writes: “…writers on visual culture, among others, are concerned not only with how images look, but how they are looked at.” How might this statement relate to McCombs and Shaw’s (and later Cohen’s) media effects theory of agenda setting?

Questions from Chapter 2, "Towards a Critical Visual Methodology"

1.     In what ways does the second aspect of the social modality of audiencing involve conducting an audience analysis like one would for a speech, presentation, etc.?

2.     Convergence, in the sense it is mentioned, is more of an umbrella term. Might we further break down this term and discuss its highlighted importance with visual images?

3.     “Appreciation,” in regard to a viewer’s opinion of art, seems loosely defined. Might we talk more about this term and how it can be applied to a viewer’s subjective thoughts?

Questions from Chapter 12, "Ethics and Visual Research Methodologies"

1.     Rose suggests that “a typical consent form would include a summary of the research project, and various boxes for participants to tick, agreeing to a range of different activities and to a range of things that you may want to do with the data…” What, if any, are the downsides of providing participants with these various boxes for them to tick?

2.     What might some of the drawbacks be in allowing for flexibility of the “collaborative relationship” that Rose mentions can exist between the researcher and the researched?

Sources:

Rose, Gillian. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. London: Sage, 2012.