Grounded in socio-visual thinking, this book addresses the emerging shift in the way social scientists move from a sociology of or through images toward a sociology  images. In doing so, this volume illustrates how the sky and atmosphere remain a surprisingly underexplored domain within visual sociology beyond the framework of drone-related research. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more, this volume asserts how vertical and atmospherically framed socio-visual analysis is beginning to shape and inform how we see and experience urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and environmental challenges through various prisms, including artistic practices, methodological processes, and user-generated content. weiterlesen