Visual Methods in the Context of Digital Infrastructures and Practices

Monday, 7 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: FSE013 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC57 Visual Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

This session aims to attract presentations addressing the encounter between visual methods and digital practices.

We are particularly interested in exploring how established visual methods can be employed in the context of:

  • digital image productions (from HDR to photorealism etc.)
  • social media (from Facebook, to Snapchat WhatsApp and their counterparts for non-Western worlds)
  • data visualizations (from maps to scans and medical imagery)
  • artificial intelligence

What are their affordances and what are their limits? Do we need to rethink the meaning and practice of visual methods in the context of today's digital technologies?

Thus, this panel invites the exploration of digital visual sources as well as visual media as tools to gather, and produce data (on material culture, media use, and human behavior) and to communicate insights and perspectives on contemporary human conditions and experiences. The panel also welcomes visual ethnographies of everyday life in a diversity of contexts

Session Organizers:
Luc PAUWELS, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Marina CIAMPI, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
Oral Presentations
Show Us What You Are Looking at. Visual Participatory Research As a Way to Collect and to Exhibit Social Interpretations
Mathias BLANC, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Visual Self-Presentation in Online Dating: Behavioral Styles and Patterns across Culture, Gender, and Sexualities
Tobias KAMELSKI, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Researching Media Figures As Constructions of Digital Archives
Han Sang KIM, Ajou University, South Korea
Germany Bans the Red Triangle: Nomadic Semiotics in Digital Image Analysis
Carolina CAMBRE, Concordia University, Canada
Mealspiration: From the ‘Gram to the Data. Visual Methods and Its Role in the Study of Digital Food Practices.
Paloma CASTRO-FERNÁNDEZ, IPNA-CSIC, Spain
Visual and Sensory Methods in the Study of Everyday Bordering Processes: Insights from the Finnish–Russian Border
Virpi KAISTO, Belgium
Coloring Outside the Lines? Imaginary Reconstitution of Security in Yemen through Image Transformations
Yelyzaveta GLYBCHENKO, Ukraine
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