Qualitative Research Resources: Special Topics

Get started using visual data in social research. Covers many uses a researcher can make of images, from creating images as a part of the research process to collecting and analyzing images from diverse sources.Explores opportunities and arms readers with tools to overcome some of the practical challenges.

Visual research methods (VRM) comprise a collection of methods that incorporate visual elements such as maps, drawings, photographs, videos, as well as three-dimensional objects into the research process. In addition, VRM including photo-elicitation, photovoice, draw-and-write techniques, and cognitive mapping are being leveraged to great effect to explore information experiences to investigate some of the central questions in the field; expand theoretical discussions in LIS; and improve library services and spaces.

Details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations, including hundreds of examples. Includes a chapter on qualitative data visualization

Qualitative GIS is a mixed methods framework for social and spatial research. This entry provides a critical review of qualitative GIS and demonstrates how forms of evidence and analysis familiar to qualitative research have been integrated with GIS in a variety of ways in spatial research since the turn of the 21st century.