The purpose of this presentation is to lay out thoughts ad generate discussions and ideas about using inter-disciplinary principles of visual research methods applied to images stored in social media, as well as social network analysis on groups, individuals, images, and documents. Then blend the two to identify hard to find problems or build agenda for investigation and actually investigate significant environmental and occupational health issues. In addition to laying out thoughts, some indicative images and instances of social network analyses have been provided in this description.

1. Exploring Relationships in
Environmental and Occupational
Health Research Using VM and SNA
Arindam Basu
University of Canterbury,
International Visual Methods Conference,
2013
Wellington

2. Purpose
• Discuss - How Can Environmental
Occupational Health Issues be framed using a
combination of Social Network Analysis and
Image Analysis

3. 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?

4. Image Sharing Social
Media – visual
methods
Environmental and
Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis

5. Image Sharing Social
Media – visual
methods
Environmental and
Occupational Health
Social Network Analysis
Where We Frame Issues and Agenda

6. 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 …

7. Visual Materials and Interpretation

8. 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

9. Occupational Health and Laborers in
India: What Issues Come out?

10. 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

11. Images of Water Pollution in India

12. Images of water pollution

13. Images of Air Pollution in India

14. Images of Air Pollution in India

15. Images of Air Pollution in India

16. Images of Air Pollution in India

17. Images of Air Pollution in India

18. 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

19. Use of Social Network Analysis
• Map the Social Network
• Centrality
• Density
• Homophily
• Between-ness
• Structural Holes

20. Social Network Structure of Personal
Facebook Links

21. 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 …

22. Social Network Diagram of a Public Health
Professional Group in Facebook

23. 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 …

24. 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