Exploring Relationships in Environmental and Occupational Health Research Using VM and
SNA
Arindam BasuUniversity of Canterbury,
International Visual Methods Conference,2013
Wellington
Purpose
• Discuss - How Can Environmental Occupational Health Issues be framed using a combination of Social Network Analysis and Image Analysis
How Do We See Into Hard to Access Spaces and Explore Relationships in Environmental and Occupational Health with Visual Research
Methods and Social Network Analysis?
Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods
Environmental and Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis
Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods
Environmental and Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis
Where We Frame Issues and Agenda
Image Sharing Social Media Apps
The important bit here is that, each of these sites should allow media as social media where people participate to upload, share, tag, comment, and enrich the media in many ways …
Visual Materials and Interpretation
Environmental Health in India: Climate change Pictures
Photos Were Obtained from Flickr by searching the flickr database with keywords “India” and “Climate Change” all years
Occupational Health and Laborers in India: What Issues Come out?
Occupational Health and Labourers: Issues?
All these photos were obtained on the basis of royalty free images searching Flickr for tags that included “India” AND “labourer” OR “laborer”, all years
Images of Water Pollution in India
Images of water pollution
Images of Air Pollution in India
Images of Air Pollution in India
Images of Air Pollution in India
Images of Air Pollution in India
Images of Air Pollution in India
Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods
Environmental and Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis
Space where we find out target population, at-risk people and spaces
Use of Social Network Analysis
• Map the Social Network• Centrality• Density• Homophily• Between-ness• Structural Holes
Social Network Structure of Personal Facebook Links
Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods
Environmental and Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis
Where the research team, the output, the publication plan, the background research …
Social Network Diagram of a Public Health Professional Group in Facebook
Image Sharing Social Media – visual methods
Environmental and Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis
The Multi- and the Inter-disciplinary Space where work gets done, and study/practice conducted …
A Roadmap
Start with A Search of the Overall Broad Based Topic in Visual Social Media
Deep Visual Methods Analysis of the Images
Social Network Analysis of Connectedness of Authors and Images
Identify significant health issues around Environmental and Occupational Exposure and Build up an Investigation Process