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- ↑ Annual Conference at visualsociology.org. Accessed 06.2015.
- ↑ Visual Studies
- ↑ Grant Blank, James L. McCartney, Edward E. Brent (1989). New Technology in Sociology: Practical Applications in Research and Work p. 95
- ↑ David Gauntlett (2007). Creative Explorations: New Approaches to Identities and Audiences. p. 105
- ↑ Elizabeth Chaplin (2002). Sociology and Visual Representation. p. 222
