Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing
Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing
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解读母性形象：集体观看的背景和动力
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2010
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J. Fink
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Helen Lomax;J. Fink
我们的研究关注出生和养育的文化表征，作为其中的一部分，我们参与了关于竞争的理论和方法论方法来分析视觉图像的辩论。特别是，我们感兴趣的是图像的意义是如何反射性地产生，管理和协商。也就是说，是否以及在多大程度上解释是由个人经验，情感和记忆的影响;在观看的情况下，可能调解意义的方式;以及研究者和研究对象之间的关系可能如何塑造解释过程。为了探讨这些问题，本文借鉴了一组妇女集体观看新妈妈图像的录音讨论。这些照片包括荷兰摄影师Rineke Dijkstra拍摄的母亲和新生儿的照片，以及我们作为新母亲的照片，由我们各自的家庭拍摄。本文融合了会话分析和话语心理学的分析框架，以考虑我们自己和讨论者对这些照片的反应，因为它们通过集体观看的动态和话语过程出现。此外，我们认为我们自己和讨论者的传记和生殖经验的意义，因为它们是在互动对话中可见的，对于小组参与照片所产生的意义。通过这种自反性的方法，我们强调更广泛的文化叙事，体裁，记忆和经验之间的相互作用的解释过程和集体观看的图像，其中的意义是话语定位，协商和沉默所带来的分析挑战的重要性。
Our research is concerned with cultural representations of birth and mothering and, as part of this, we are engaged with debates concerning competing theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of visual images. In particular we are interested in how meanings of an image are reflexively produced, managed and negotiated. That is, whether and to what extent interpretation is influenced by personal experience, emotion and memory; the ways in which the context of viewing may mediate meaning; and how the relationship between researcher and research subject may shape the interpretative process. In order to explore such questions, this paper draws on the tape-recorded discussion of a group of women collectively viewing images of new mothers. These included photographs of mothers and their newborns taken by the Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, and photographs of us, the authors, as new mothers, taken by our respective families. The paper blends the analytic framework of conversation analysis and discursive psychology in order to consider both our own and the discussants’ responses to these photographs as they emerge through the dynamic and discursive process of collective viewing. In addition we consider the significance of our own and the discussants’ biographies and reproductive experiences, as they are made visible in the talk-in-interaction, for the meanings generated by the group's engagement with the photographs. Through this reflexive approach we highlight the significance of the interplay between broader cultural narratives, genres, memories and experiences for the interpretive process and the analytical challenges posed by collective viewings of images in which meanings are discursively situated, negotiated and silenced.