Capitulating to captions: The verbal transformation of visual images

Ethnomethodology and the Visual Practices of Looking, Visualization, and Embodied Action

“…Here the researcher, when walking to a supermarket, narrates into an audio recording machine a description of their actions, for all practical 'analytic' purposes. One consequence of this methodological strategy is that the visual is transformed into the verbal, a common device in a 'discipline of words' (Mead, 1975;Signorelli, 1984).…”

Ethnomethodology and the Visual: Practices of Looking, Visualization, and Embodied Action

“…Here the researcher, when walking to a supermarket, narrates into an audio recording machine a description of their actions, for all practical 'analytic' purposes. One consequence of this methodological strategy is that the visual is transformed into the verbal, a common device in a 'discipline of words' (Mead, 1975;Signorelli, 1984).…”