In November 2021, the Research Area "Visual Studies in the Social Sciences" at the University of Vienna published the edited volume Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Bild- und Medienwelten (Analysing Image and Media Worlds in the Social Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613681).
This book is in memory of Elke Mader (1954-2021), who supported the Research Area from the very beginning. While Elke was not able to contribute to this interdisciplinary project herself, three of her former students have written about their anthropological and ethnographic research into visual phenomena. Hanna Klien-Thomas and Petra Hirzer discuss the performative dimension of visual media practices from a transcultural perspective by building on fieldwork in Trinidad and Peru (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613681-006). Philipp Budka analyzes visual practices related to a digital platform of remote First Nation communities in Canada (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613681-005).
Breckner, R., Liebhart, K., & Pohn-Lauggas, M. (Eds.) 2021. Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Bild- und Medienwelten. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613681
