Federico Lucchesi, also on behalf of Seraina Tarnutzer and Katharina Lobinger, discussed the paper “Visual Intimacy – Moving towards an overall conceptualization”. He shed light on existing theories and definitions of intimacy and mediated intimacy. Then, combining both theoretical reflections, previous studies and empirical data from our own research, he provided a conceptualization of the many different forms of visual intimacy, underlining the roles of visual practices in fostering intimacy within close social relationships.
Under the title „Methods on the move. Grasping the complexities of visual communication practices with repertoire-oriented approaches.“, Seraina Tarnutzer discussed, also on behalf of Federico Lucchesi and Katharina Lobinger, the advantages of a repertoire-oriented methodological research design for visual communication research. In the presentation, she gave „hands on“ insights into how we apply the approach within the ViRe research project (Visualized relationships).
Seraina Tarnutzer gave a talk entitled “Content and context in visual elicitation. Where is the visual content in visual methods?” (co-authored by Federico Lucchesi, Katharina Lobinger and Rebecca Venema). She focused on the content and context of visual material in photo-elicitation discussing potential benefits of analyzing the photographs that are used for the photo-elicitation.
Under the title “Follow (up) the visual. Building continuity within the sets of interviews through visual methods” (a research conducted together with Seraina Tarnutzer, Katharina Lobinger and Rebecca Venema), Federico Lucchesi pointed at the possible advantages of creative visual techniques (e.g. network drawings), such as building continuity between to different sets of interviews.
