Visual Images of Community: Implications for Communication Research

Abstract

This chapter gathers a body of literature from fields that examine communities visually. Works from anthropology, sociology, and documentary photography are brought together to show how such work is relevant to communication studies and, more specifically, to the study of communication and community. The literature is organized into four categories along two dimensions: small scope and large scope as well as gemeinschaft and gesellschaft (small-scope/gemeinschaft, large-scope/gemeinschaft,...