The strengths of using SONGS as a source
Qualitative
- Personal Experiences : alternitive view to media
- Sense of place - lived
- Absent objective measures
LImitations of using SONGS as a source
Qualitative
- Only one perspective : Biased, Subjective , Insider/Outsider
Strengths of using photographs as a source
Shows:
-clothing
- leisure
- crowding
- buildings
good for visual comparissons across time (long history of photography) - In richmond photos date back to 1890
Limitations of using photographs as sources
Immedate
Might be staged
Very selective what the photographer wanted to show
Strengths of using Google Street View as a source?
Less biased than photographs as imagery is not staged or selevtive
limit : only photographs high street
Limitations of using Google Street VIew
Somewhat sizeable period of change but only goes back to 2008 (in Richmond)
Views of richmond are more restricted as its only on the high street
Less reliable coverage of the town
Strengths of using Tourist Brochures and information as a source?
Highlights key attractions and cultural identity
Shows the how the area wants to be percieved
Reveals changes in focus over time (heritage vs. leisure)
Limitations of using Tourist Brochures and information as a source?
text source
Reveals a marketed identity
Idealises a place
Ignores social problems
Strengths of using newspapers as a source
text source
Continous historical record
Highlights the community feeling
Limitations of using newspapers as a source
Editorial bias
Focus on problems / sensational events
Uneven coverage of all social groups
Limitations of using Audio-visual media - Fictional Films and TV as a source
Often ramatized or stylised
Might exaggerate, romanticise or stereotype
Focused on visual / narrative appeal (not accurate representation)
Doesnt capture full diversity of everyday experiences
Strengths of using Audio-visual media - Fictional Films and TV as a source
Show character of a place over time (setting, costume, dialouge)
Gives a cultural and social understanding of a place
Strengths of using Artistic representations - paintings as a source
Long-temr landscape cahnge
Cultural heritage
Limitations of using Artistic representations - paintings as a source
Subjective interpretation
Selective
Strengths of using poems as a source
artistic representation
symbolise cultural meanings
Reveals sentimental or critical attitudes
Limitations of using poems as a source
artistic representation
Poems are highly evocated
Metaphorical rather than documentary
qualitative
Strengths of using Maps as a source
Spatially percise
Tracks physical change
qualitative
Limitations of using Maps as a source
Does not show social/cultural practices or lived experiences
