1st Edition

Creative Explorations New Approaches to Identities and Audiences

By David Gauntlett Copyright 2007
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships? Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience. Seeking... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Self and Creativity  3. Science and What we can Say about the World  4. Social Science and Social Experience  5. Inside the Brain  6. Using Visual and Creative Methods  7. More Visual Sociologies  8. Building Identities in Metaphors  9. What a Whole Identity Model Means  10. Conclusion: Eleven Findings on Methods, Identities, and Audiences

Biography

David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications, University of Westminster, London. He is the author of several books on media audiences and identities, including Media, Gender and Identity (2002) and Moving Experiences (Second Edition, 2005). He produces the award-winning website on media and identities, Theory.org.uk, and the hub for creative methodologies, ArtLab.org.uk.