Robinson, NT orcid.org/0000-0003-2283-3022 and Schulzke, M (2016) Visualizing War? Towards a Visual Analysis of Videogames and Social Media. Perspectives on Politics, 14 (4). pp. 995-1010. ISSN 1537-5927
Abstract
Political scientists are increasingly engaged with the importance of the “visual turn,” asking questions about how we understand what we see and the social and political consequences of that seeing. One of the greatest challenges facing researchers is developing methods that can help us understand visual politics. Much of the literature has fallen into the familiar qualitative versus quantitative methodological binary, with a strong bias in favor of the former, and has consequently been unable to realize the advantages of mixed-methods research. We advance the study of visual politics as well as the literature on bridging the quantitative versus qualitative divide by showing that it is possible to generate quantitative data that is rooted in, and amenable to, qualitative research on visual phenomena. Our approach to conducting mixed-methods research is an alternative to the more common strategy of seeing various research methods as an assortment of tools, as it is directed at developing an organic relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this strategy for research on visual politics by discussing our own efforts to create a dataset for quantifying visual signifiers of militarism.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © American Political Science Association 2016. This article has been published in a revised form in Perspectives on Politics [https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592716002887]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Swedish Research Council Not Known Swedish Research Council 2012-40701-97075-58 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2016 09:15 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2020 11:41 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592716002887 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Political Science Association |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1537592716002887 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97841 |