Methodological reflections on tracing networked images
Abstract
Purpose: Many scholars highlight a need for reflexive methodological accounts to support visual research. Therefore, this paper offers detailed reflection on the methods involved in tracing and analysing 248 commercial images of entrepreneurship. This account supports our published work examining entrepreneurial masculinities and femininities, which conceptualised the gendering of entrepreneurial aesthetics, and proposed the significance of image networks in the reproduction of neoliberal ideals. Design/Methodology/Approach:Now based on further methodological reflexivity we offer insights on both the possibilities and challenges of tracing networked images by reviewing four methodological complexities: reflexive engagement with online images; working with and across platforms; tracing as a potentially never-ending process; and montage approaches to analysis. Findings: Our account focuses on a specific form of imagery – commercial images – on a certain representation – the gendered entrepreneur – and on a particular complex site of encounter – online. This work mapped a visual repertoire of gendered entrepreneurship online by tracing visual constructions of entrepreneurial masculinity and femininity. In this paper we open the methodological ‘black box’ of our study and explain our belief that methodological advances can only be built through exposing our working practice. Originality: Through our detailed reflective account we aim to open discussions to aid development and use of complex visual methods onlineSimilar works
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This paper was published in Cronfa at Swansea University.
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