Presented at IVSA 2010 Conference, Bologna, 20th July 2010 - Recent opportunities offered by the Web 2.0 for improving intersubjectivity in visual research, and the consequences of these changes for doing research. Notes at http://www.scribd.com/doc/34700530/The-Web-2-0-opportunities-and-challenges-for-visual-research-text

1. The Web 2.0: opportunities and
challenges for improving the
intersubjectivity of control
Agnese Vardanega
Univ. of Teramo, Italy
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2. Summary
 Background: intersubjectivity and visual research
 Web 2.0: tools and opportunities in a methodological
perspective
 Publishing / Sharing
 Comments / Participatory interpretation
 New uses of visual materials
 Changes in research practices
 Web 2.0: new challenges
 Digital divide
 Copyright / acknowledgement
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3. Does intersubjectivity imply
intersubjective agreement?
 Intersubjective experience in common sense
 Intersubjective experience in science
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4. Intersubjectivity
 Control over procedures and data
 guaranteed by the publication of the results
 Tables and graphs
 Visual, and audiovisual materials
 Public discussion and criticism
Publication on the Internet provides new
“affordances” related to all these activities
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5. Online publishing
Publication
Participation
0
Knowledge
diffusion
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6. Texts and visuals
Sometimes, text
analysis is visual analysis
… and vice versa
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7. Rough or interpreted materials?
Categories
Definition
Normally, visuals are presented together with illustrative
texts (captions, references etc)
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8. Social web and interpretation
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9. Questions and challenges
 Digital Divide
 destitute groups
 Underprivileged countries and regions
 Copyright and recognition of authorship
 Resistance to the use of the Internet to spread
unpublished works and preprints
 Less resistance to the publication of visuals, where
common creative licences are widely accept
 Collective platforms, such as Hypotheses.org (Fr) or
Edublogs.org (Usa)
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10. New ways for making “social” visual
research?
 Publishing and sharing materials
 Using comments
 Allowing
 Publishing and analysing
 Elicitating to involve participants, scholars, students
and/or stakeholders
 Enlarged definition of “intersubjectivity”
 New forms for integrating textual and visual
material
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