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RTS542

PHOTOGRAPHY IN VISUAL METHODOLOGIES

Course Code
RTS542
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
10
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelMaster's Degree Without Thesis
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS10
Name of Lecturer(s) -
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. learn to develop an understanding of the various concepts and methods used to visually analyze and interpret a text.
  2. can produce a visual argument and knows how to present it.
  3. can conduct a visual research on different kinds of visual forms of communication such as; photography, visual arts, advertisement and different kinds of popular culture artifacts.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsNone.
Course DescriptionThe information about basic approaches concerning photograph theory, the usage of photography in qualitative researches and critical visual research methods are examined and the information about the relationship of photograph with the different fields of social sciences is supplied.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Course introduction
2nd Week Defining the field / What is visual culture? / What is visual methods?
3rd Week Early visualities
4th Week Changing technologies altering methophors
5th Week Ontology of the Image
6th Week Ontology of the digital image
7th Week Designing a visual communication research I: Content analysis
8th Week Mid-term exam
9th Week Designing a visual communication research I: Iconography
10th Week Designing a visual communication research III: Visual etnography
11th Week Designing a visual communication research IV: Archive
12th Week Everyday Life / The Reseracher as autopbiographer
13th Week Research Strategy: planning and practicing visual methods
14th Week Discussion of the research design: Presentation of the visual methods
Recommended or Required ReadingBaron, Jaimie (2014) The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History. Roudledge
Brundage, Anthony (2013) Going to the Sources: A Guide to Historical Research and Writing
Bal, Mieke (2005) "The Commitment to Look." Journal of Visual Culture. 4.2: 145-162
Crary, Jonathan (2001) Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: MITP.
Danacıoğlu, Esra (2001). Geçmisin İzleri: Yanıbaşımızdaki Tarih için bir Kılavuz. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları.
Gunther Kress, (2006) Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. Routledge
Jay, Martin (2002) ?That Visual Turn: The Advent of Visual Culture. Journal of Visual Culture 1.1. 87-92.
MacDougall (2005) The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses , Princeton University Press .
Mitchell, Claudia (2011) Doing Visual Research, SAGE Publications
Leeuwen, Theo Van; Jewitt, Carey (eds) (2001) The Handbook of Visual Analysis SAGE Publications
Mitchell, W. J.T. (2005) "There are no Visual Media." Journal of Visual Culture 4 (2005): 257
Mitchell W.J.T. "Showing Seeing: a Critique of Visual Culture." Journal of Visual Culture 1.2 (2002): 165-181.
Pink, Sarah (2013) Doing Visual Ethnography, SAGE Publications
Pink, Sarah (2001) Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media and Representation in Research
Rogoff, Irgit. "Studying Visual Culture." The Visual Culture Reader. Ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. Routledge, 1998. 14-26.
Rose, Gillian (2011) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials, SAGE Publications
Schwarts, Dona. (1989) Visual ethnography: Using photography in qualitative research Qualitative Sociology, 12:2, 119-154
Tinkler, Penny (2013) Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research, SAGE Publications.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Presentation
  • Practice
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 10
Assignment 4 40
Presentation of Article 1 10
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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