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Learning to see with Deleuze

Understanding affective responses in image-viewer research assemblages

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ID12697342
AuthorsA N Wilson (0000-0001-6928-1689, University of Stirling, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume21
Issue6
Pages906-922
Publication date2020-08-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468794120946979
OpenAlexW3035736535
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited19

I describe an approach to analysing the affective flows produced in sociomaterial assemblages of visual images and humans in research processes. The approach combines Deleuzian understandings of repetition and difference, and of lines of articulation and flight, with interpretative techniques drawn from visual social semiotics. I use examples from my research into images shared by professionals on Twitter to illustrate how this approach can reveal not only the forces, intensities and hidden logics that lead to particular responses, but also the ways in which these responses impact on research decisions and interpretations

Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Repetition (rhetorical device · Semiotics · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual methods · Visual research · Digital Storytelling and Education · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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Citations per year2,75
Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 11

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