Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies

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Are you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and tools could enhance your research? Have you thought about ways to spark and engage in academic conversations on social media? Have you wondered how digital technologies are internationalizing the field of fashion and textile studies? Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies presents the reader with a variety of digital methodologies to help build skills in searching for, analyzing, and discussing vintage design, photography, and writing on fashion, as well as historic and ethnographic dress and textile objects themselves. Each chapter focuses upon a different method, problem, or research site, including: - Maximalism and mixed-methods approaches to research - Searching large databases effectively - Pattern recognition and visual searching. - Critical reading, use, and citation of social media texts - Digital ethnography and shopping as research - Data visualization and mapping - Images in the public domain From advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students working on research projects to veteran professionals in fashion and textile history and beyond, everyone can benefit from a diverse set of fresh approaches to conducting and disseminating research. In the current age of instant gratification, with users snapping and posting images from runway shows long before the clothes will ever appear instores, the world of fashion is increasingly digital and fast-paced. Research on fashion is, too. Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies will help you keep up in this rapidly changing world. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments About the Author 1 Introduction: A New Maximalism About this Book Postmodernism and Positivism in Mixed-Methods Research Mixed-Methods Research as Maximalism Roadmap to the Book Part 1: Searching: Chapter 1: Text-based Searching Strategies Part 1: Searching: Case Study: In Search of Kate Moss Part 1: Searching: Chapter 2: Visual Searching Part 2: Connecting: Chapter 3: Blogging, Instagram, and Research Part 2: Connecting: Chapter 4: Critical Reading of Social Media Texts Part 2: Connecting: Case Study: Reading Moschino’s “Capsule Collection” Part 3: Visualizing: Chapter 5: Data Visualization Part 3: Visualizing: Chapter 6: Mapping Part 3: Visualizing: Case Study: Coding Fashion Is Kale Responding to the Critique of Minimalism: Why Use Mixed Methods? Futurism, Maximalism, and the Black Queen Part 1 Searching 2 Text-based Searching Strategies Keyword Generation for Boolean Queries SEO and Searching the Web What is Metadata? National, Local, and Regional Databases Australian Dress Register Europeana Commercial Pattern Archive Encyclopedic Databases Fashion History Timeline Fashion Photography Archive Case Study: In Search of Kate Moss Kate as Mermaid In Search of the Fashion Model When Text-based Searches Fail 3 Visual Searching Why Images? Images and Memory Five Types of Queries Sourcing Images Responsibly Computer Vision in Museum Work Searching for Patterns: Harlequin and Ichimatsu Searching for Colors: Millennial Pink, Tiffany Blue, and Historical Colors Reverse Image Searches John Lennon’s T-Shirts Limitations of Reverse Image Searches Part 2 Connecting 4 Blogging, Instagram, and Research Conducting Research on Social Media The Wisdom of the Crowd Who is the Crowd? #georgianjanuary Citing Social Posts Disseminating Research on Instagram Conferences: If You Hashtag It, They Will Tweet The Importance of Hashtags Emojis in Academic Communication The Semiotic Power of Emojis Bricolage and Polyvore Instant Gratification in Fashion Scholarship Style Blogging Street Style Blogging as Research Method Academic #ootds and the Simmelian Dandy Fashion Blogger Poses and Normative Chic Academic Style Blogging as Academic Work Fashion Blogger Ethics and the Role of the Independent Blogger 5 Critical Reading of Social Media Texts Applied Theory Hermeneutics Hermeneutics … and Cleavage Scholarly Communication, Professionalism, and Social Media Controversy Social Media Outrages: Women in Politics Wear Clothes on the Internet Case Study: Reading the Moschino “Capsule Collection” Opiates: An Historical Background Heroin Chic Popular Criticism of “Fashionable” Drug Use Simmel and Psychoanalytic Readings Simmel and Marxist Readings: Modesty, Class, and Imitation Part 3 Visualizing 6 Data Visualization The History of Visualization and its Practitioners The Visualization Wheel Density and Transparency The Importance of Color Data Visualization Ethics Types of Visualizations The Visualization Process Single Number Visualizations Icon Arrays The Cleveland-McGill Scale Gestalt Theory Pie Charts Bad Pie Charts and Donut Charts Word Clouds A Word about 3D Modeling 7 Mapping Reading Maps Types of Maps Projections Remote Sensing and GIS Density, Scale, and Color The Participatory Turn in Mapping The OpenStreetMap and Crowdsourced Mapping Qualitative and Quantitative Mapping Trade Routes of Viking Silk Overlaying Data Sets and Mapping Transport History Mapping the Discovery of the Hope Diamond Visualizing Qualitative Data Case Study: Coding Fashion Is Spinach Coding and Code … with Highlighters Document Annotation Methods and Annotation as Method Why Spinach?: The Binary of Style and Fashion Shopping as Research Method Conclusions: Responding to the Critique of Minimalism Post-script: Maximalist Muse: A Conversation with Kristen Bateman Glossary Notes Bibliography Join the Conversation on Instagram! 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