Visual Research and the Problem of the Visual Object

DOI

10.2991/hssnpp-19.2019.125How to use a DOI?

Keywords

visual studies, visual objects, types of visual objects, visual quality of objects

Abstract

Visual studies and a complex of their special methods are used in many social and human sciences (sociology, anthropology, ethnography, semiotics, media studies, etc.). There are newish research areas: visual studies, visual research, visual culture, which study only visually. These scientific areas want a clear subject demarcation and therefore the problem of the special nature of visual objects is important for them. Despite the discussions that have already taken place on this topic, modern scientists are expanding the range of these objects in real research, usually without discussing their nature. Therefore, there is an interest in how the objects of study are chosen and what they are. The purpose of this article is to identify the types of "visual objects" studied by scientists in these disciplines. In this regard, the analysis was conducted of the content of articles published in well-known thematic scientific journals with the subsequent reconstruction of the objects of their research. This allowed us to identify three of their main types, as well as to discuss some of their features within each type and their popularity for the research. The suggestion was made about the "measure of visuality" of these objects, which again raised the question of understanding the nature of visual objects.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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