Exploring

Rela.onships in Environmental and Occupa.onal Health Research Using VM and SNA

Arindam Basu University of Canterbury, Interna.onal Visual Methods Conference, 2013 Wellington

Purpose
Discuss - How Can Environmental Occupa.onal Health Issues be framed using a combina.on of Social Network Analysis and Image Analysis

How Do We See Into Hard to Access Spaces and Explore Rela.onships in Environmental and Occupa.onal Health with Visual Research Methods and Social Network Analysis?

Image Sharing Social Media visual methods

Environmental and Occupa.onal Health

Social Network Analysis

Where We Frame Issues and Agenda

Image Sharing Social Media visual methods

Environmental and Occupa.onal Health

Social Network Analysis

Image Sharing Social Media Apps

The important bit here is that, each of these sites should allow media as social media where people par.cipate to upload, share, tag, comment, and enrich the media in many ways

Visual Materials and Interpreta.on

Environmental Health in India: Climate change Pictures

Photos Were Obtained from Flickr by searching the ickr database with keywords India and Climate Change all years

Occupa.onal Health and Laborers in India: What Issues Come out?

Occupa.onal 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 Pollu.on in India

Images of water pollu.on

Images of Air Pollu.on in India

Images of Air Pollu.on in India

Images of Air Pollu.on in India

Images of Air Pollu.on in India

Images of Air Pollu.on in India

Image Sharing Social Media visual methods

Environmental and Occupa.onal Health

Social Network Analysis Space where we nd out target popula.on, 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 Occupa.onal Health

Social Network Analysis Where the research team, the output, the publica.on plan, the background research

Social Network Diagram of a Public Health Professional Group in Facebook

The Mul.- and the Inter-disciplinary Space where work gets done, and study/prac.ce conducted

Image Sharing Social Media visual methods

Environmental and Occupa.onal Health

Social Network Analysis

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

Iden.fy signicant health issues around Environmental and Occupa.onal Exposure and Build up an Inves.ga.on Process