Sociology of the visual sphere / edited by Regev Nathansohn and Dennis Zuev

Includes bibliographical references and index

Table Of Contents: List of Figures List of Tables and Graphs 1 Sociology of the Visual Sphere: Introduction / Regev Nathansohn, Dennis Zuev PART I Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual 2 The Limits of the Visual in the "War without Witness" / Pavithra Tantrigoda 3 From a Slight Smile to Scathing Sarcasm: Shades of Humor in Israeli Photojournalism / Ayelet Kohn 4 Sociology of Iconoclasm: Distrust of Visuality in the Digital Age / Lukasz Rogowski 5 Picturing "Gender": Iconic Figuration, Popularization, and the Contestation of a Key Discourse in the New Europe / Anna Schober PART II New Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual 6 Production of Solidarities in YouTube: A Visual Study of Uyghur Nationalism / Matteo Vergani, Dennis Zuev 7 On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces / Timothy Shortell, Jerome Krase 8 Representing Perception: Integrating Photo Elicitation and Mental Maps in the Study of Urban Landscape / Valentina Anzoise, Cristiano Mutti 9 Operations of Recognition: Seeing Urbanizing Landscapes with the Feet / Christian Von Wissel Contributors Index