Digital Transformation and the Evolution of Visual Research Methodologies

Dr Ratan Kumar Roy, On behalf of the Organizing Committee, IVSA Workshop on Visual Research in South & Southeast Asia, informed that Dr Kishore's abstract has been selected for participation in the Workshop.

The workshop related to theme of 'Methodological Opportunities, Challenges and Ethical Concerns in Visual Research'

is going to be held at South Asian University, Rajpur Road, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110 068 (Contact Phone: +91 11 35656500)

"We received a high volume of abstracts from scholars across the world. After careful review, we are delighted to invite you to complete your registration for the workshop," added Roy while sharing Link for payment: https://onlinesbi.sbi.bank.in/sbicollect/icollecthome.htm?saralID=-995938795&categoryName=IVSA%20WORKSHOP%20ON%20VISUAL%20RESEARCH withe the deadline for completing registration is 15 July 2026.

Details of the accepted submission are as follows

Title: Reactions of Special Education Trainees to a Workshop on Producing a Photo-Essay Using a Mobile Camera: An Action Research

Abstract: An action research was undertaken by conducting a two-hour workshop on producing a photo-essay using a mobile camera with the participants (N=68; age range: 20-45 years; mean age=35 years; special education) at the Disha Foundation in Jaipur. The action research had three objectives: (1) To expose participants to three different styles of pho-essays; (2) To make participants identify nine photos of the event of workshop to work as paragraphs of the photo-essay on it; The resources for the workshop consisted of a photo-essay expert as the workshop conductor; a power point presentation; a short interview-based film and an open form to write captions on the photos of a photo-essay age give reactions on the workshop. As a first exposure to such a workshop, out of 68 participants, 20 could think of all the 9 relevant photographs; 40 could think of 4-6 relevant photographs and 8 were totally irrelevant. The reactions of the participants were analyzed by classifying their comments as favourable, unfavoural and neutral. Out of 204 responses, 180 were found favourable, 20 neutral and four unfavourable. When analyzed through chi-square test with two degrees of freedom, the reactions to the workshop were found to significantly favourable at 0.01 level of significance. The workshop was found relevant and skill doable with mobile camera as with visual research method as part of practitioner’s action research methodology.

Keywords: Action research, closing shot, development shots, introductory shot, photo-essay, photo-captioning, visual research

Affiliation: Dr. Lalit Kishore, Researcher and Member School Management Committee, Vidya Bharati School, Jai Jawan Colony 3, Jaipur-302018, Email: lalit_culp@rediffmail.com

In Summary

According to Kishore (2026), digital transformation has democratized visual research by integrating consumer electronics like smartphones, interactive boards, and cameras into standard classroom practice, allowing educators to easily capture rich, visual data. It is observed that while visual methodologies and multimedia, such as photographs and GIFs, are increasingly used to analyze inclusive education, a gap remains where academic culture still prioritizes traditional, text-based action research over visual evidence and there is need to include visual data to get better research results

Reference for citation

Kishore, L. (202,6,july 1). Digital Transformation and the Evolution of Visual Research Methodologies, Lalit Culp, https://lalitculp.wixsite.com/website/post/digital-transformation-and-the-evolution-of-visual-research-methodologies