Understanding forest pictures on social media– A method to grasp nonverbal dimensions of human–nature relationships

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2021.1923157

Jasmin Breithut, Wiebke Hebermehl, Stephanie Bethmann, Kristina Wirth

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The increasing importance of images as an everyday medium of communication (e.g. in consequence of the use of smartphones and social media) has led to an intensive engagement of the social sciences with the methodological accessibility of images. In this paper we present a qualitative image analysis method developed to understand nonverbal dimensions of human-nature relationships. The method is methodologically substantiated and presented in form of a step-by-step guideline. It offers an opportunity to transfer images into words by accepting the images characteristic materiality. Furthermore, an example analysis of a picture posted on a social media platform is provided. Based on this, this paper asks and discusses what research dedicated to the visual can do for environmental sociology regarding content-related insights as well as regarding methodological issues addressing a sociological research that rethinks and expands its repertoire to increasingly involve more-than-human actors in environmental sociology. In this way, the paper aims to discuss the added value of the suggested method and its potential to improve the understanding of sensory and emotional dimensions of human-nature relationships in the context of environmental sociology.

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理解社交媒体上的森林图片——一种掌握人与自然关系非语言维度的方法

图像作为日常交流媒介的重要性日益增加(例如，由于智能手机和社交媒体的使用)，导致社会科学与图像的方法学可及性的密集参与。在本文中，我们提出了一种定性图像分析方法，用于理解人与自然关系的非语言维度。该方法在方法学上得到证实，并以逐步指南的形式呈现。它通过接受图像的物质性特征，为将图像转化为文字提供了机会。此外，还提供了发布在社交媒体平台上的图片的示例分析。在此基础上，本文询问并讨论了致力于视觉的研究可以为环境社会学做些什么，包括与内容相关的见解以及解决社会学研究的方法问题，这些社会学研究需要重新思考和扩展其技能，以越来越多地涉及环境社会学中超越人类的行动者。通过这种方式，本文旨在讨论所建议方法的附加价值及其在环境社会学背景下提高对人与自然关系的感官和情感维度的理解的潜力。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.