Summary information
Study title
Graffiti in Latin America 2005-2007: Photographs
Creator
Laine, Nadja (University of Tampere. Department of Social Research)
Study number / PID
FSD2674 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2674 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2674 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The data contain 176 photographs of graffiti taken in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. The graffiti represent political opinions and slogans, political party names, commercial notices, religious messages, philosophical thoughts, election campaigning, symbols and logos etc. Most textual graffiti are in Spanish. In addition to photographs, the data include a pdf index containing information on the country and location of the graffiti, and other contextual information relating to a particular graffiti, as well as list of phrases or words represented by the photographed acronyms. Data were collected in Central America during December 2005 - January 2006 and in South America during January - April 2007.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
03/12/2005 - 08/04/2007
Country
Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Object
Universe
Graffiti in selected Latin American countries
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Purposive
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Recording
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2011
Terms of data access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Related publications
- Laine, Nadja (2009). "Seinät ovat meidän viestintäkanavamme!" Tutkimus Latinalaisen Amerikan graffiteista viestintänä. Sosiologian pro gradu -tutkielma. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto.