6. Something like Happiness

This chapter explores the potential of the visual material in the study of lifestyles. It revisits one of the two fundamental questions of this volume: what is the mutual relation between changing technology and infrastructure on one hand, and lifestyles as exposed by changing visual forms of self-p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Panáková, Jaroslava
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2020
Subjects:
JHM
Online Access:http://books.openedition.org/obp/11197
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Summary:This chapter explores the potential of the visual material in the study of lifestyles. It revisits one of the two fundamental questions of this volume: what is the mutual relation between changing technology and infrastructure on one hand, and lifestyles as exposed by changing visual forms of self-presentation on the other? The main task is an analysis of photographs that the research team compiled through photo elicitation interviews. The capacity of the photo elicitation method lies in the .