Collage Visual Data: Pathways to Data Analysis

Author(s)
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Georgia Stavraki
Abstract

This chapter addresses the methodological and interpretive potential of collage visual representations and suggests that the discrete creative strategies of collages, namely juxtapositions and visual metaphors, unravel their meaning. By reviewing the existing methodologies for analyzing visual data, we argue that there is still a lack of a process of analysis which can capture and interpret the ‘interdisciplinary’ nature of collages and surface their heuristic quality. A process of collage analysis is therefore proposed, which demonstrates how juxtapositions and visual metaphors work on a collage surface. This proposed process of collage analysis provides an enhanced understanding of the unique idiosyncrasy and ontology of this form of visual data.

Organisation(s)
External organisation(s)
University of Surrey, University of Leeds
Pages
313-328
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526430236.n19
Publication date
2018
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
502016 SME-research
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Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/collage-visual-data-pathways-to-data-analysis(c9cb0847-cf77-4eb3-a896-fa8ba9a2de2e).html