Typically, interviewers are accustomed to using words: we ask questions, we prompt follow-up responses, but the same principles of visual communication are true for research exchanges. Find tips and examples in this post.

Academic writing is not always writing! Pictures and media enliven our writing, and can be important for showing concepts and contexts.

Images contain information absent in text, and this extra information presents opportunities and challenges. It is an opportunity because one image can document variables with which text sources (newspaper articles, speeches or legislative documents) struggle or on datasets too large to feasibly code manually. Learn how to overcome the challenges.

Video capture is ubiquitous. What does it mean for researchers, and how can we analyze such data?

This collection of open-access articles includes qualitative examples of analysis strategies to use with multimedia video data.

How do we understand and interpret visual or video data? See these open-access articles for ideas and examples.

To learn more about the varied ways to collect, elicit, or generate data with creative and visual methods, consult these sources.