scholarly journals Participatory dissemination: bridging in-depth interviews, participation, and creative visual methods through Interview-Based Zine-Making (IBZM)

2021 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Valli
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
New Research

In this article, I make the case for an underexplored research practice – participatory dissemination – and reflectively introduce a new research method, IBZM (Interview-Based Zine-Making), which I developed in my fieldwork research on the gentrifying neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, in New York City. Participatory dissemination is a practice that engages research participants in the interpretation of preliminary research findings, and through art-based methods, leads to the coproduction of visual outputs and research communication for diversified audiences, especially those beyond solely academic readers. Participatory dissemination has received little attention within academic debates thus far. The paper addresses this gap in the literature by outlining the rationale and potential for incorporating participatory processes within research dissemination, even where so-called traditional (non- or less-participatory) research methods are used. IBZM follows the technique of zine-making (that is, the practice of cutting, rearranging, and creatively pasting printed materials in a new pamphlet), but instead of using media texts and pictures as raw materials, IBZM works with transcribed texts from researcher-conducted interviews. The aim is to let the research participants (zine-makers) engage with the perspectives of the interviewees and find assonances, disagreements, and connections with their own thoughts. The output is a collectively produced zine to be further disseminated. IBZM offers a means of combining traditional detached research methods, such as interviews, with participatory and creative/visual research methods. As such, participatory dissemination can be helpful in bridging literatures and debates on participatory and traditional research methods, providing new avenues for researchers working primarily with the latter to incorporate participatory elements into their research process and outputs.

scholarly journals The Gaataa’aabing Visual Research Method: A Culturally Safe Anishinaabek Transformation of Photovoice

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691985163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beaudin Bennett ◽  
Marion Maar ◽  
Darrel Manitowabi ◽  
Taima Moeke-Pickering ◽  
Doreen Trudeau-Peltier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Community Outcomes

Photovoice is a community-based participatory visual research method often described as accessible to vulnerable or marginalized groups and culturally appropriate for research with Indigenous peoples. Academic researchers report adapting the photovoice method to the sociocultural context of Indigenous participants and communities with whom they are working. However, detailed descriptions on cultural frameworks for transforming photovoice in order for it to better reflect Indigenous methodologies are lacking, and descriptions of outcomes that occur as a result of photovoice are rare. We address the paucity of published methodological details on the participant-directed Indigenization of photovoice. We conducted 13 visual research group sessions with participants from three First Nations communities in Northern Ontario, Canada. Our intent was to privilege the voice of participants in a mindful exploration aimed at cocreating a transformation of the photovoice method, in order to meet participants’ cultural values. Gaataa’aabing is the Indigenized, culturally safe visual research method created through this process. Gaataa’aabing represents an Indigenous approach to visual research methods and a renewed commitment to engage Indigenous participants in meaningful and productive ways, from the design of research questions and the Indigenization of research methods, to knowledge translation and relevant policy change. Although Gaataa’aabing was developed in collaboration with Anishinaabek people in Ontario, Canada, its principles will, we hope, resonate with many Indigenous groups due to the method’s focus on (1) integration of cultural values of the respective Indigenous community(ies) with whom researchers are collaborating and (2) placing focus on concrete community outcomes as a requirement of the research process.

“Easier, Less Stressful, and Better Results”: Sociology and Criminal Justice Majors’ Experience of Library Research before and after Library Instruction

2020 ◽  
pp. 0092055X2097026
Author(s):  
Nicole Willms ◽  
Kelly O’Brien-Jenks
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
Criminal Justice Majors ◽  
New Research

This article argues for the incorporation of library instruction into research methods courses to foster information literacy skills important to disciplinary specialization. The evidence in support emerges from a collaborative teaching and assessment project conducted by a research methods instructor and a faculty instructional librarian. The project evaluated the effectiveness of library instruction in two ways: One, essays in which students described their research process before and after library instruction were evaluated qualitatively for dominant themes. Two, students’ postinstruction literature review projects were assessed using a rubric to determine the degree to which students met learning outcomes. These assessments indicate that library instruction led to several positive outcomes. In the essays, many students described increases in skills and confidence as well as appreciation for the new research tools introduced. In sampled literature review assignments, students demonstrated skills that met or exceeded expectations.

scholarly journals Seeing information: Visual methods as entry points to information practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Hicks ◽  
Annemaree Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Spatial Constraints ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Recognising the importance of exploring multimodal experiences of information, this paper provides a detailed examination of the scope of visual research methods within information practices research. More specifically, the paper will use the examples from one completed study (Lloyd and Wilkinson, 2017) and one ongoing study (Hicks, in progress) to discuss and provide a detailed examination of the use, affordances and limitations of two research methods that centre upon participant-created photographs: photo-elicitation and photovoice. Demonstrating that the use of photographs helps to evoke and communicate complex meaning as well as to mediate between linguistic, temporal and spatial constraints, this study highlights the continuing need to develop research methods that privilege participants’ understandings and perspectives.

One step closer to the field: visual methods in marketing and consumer research

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Shin Rohani ◽  
May Aung ◽  
Khalil Rohani
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Consumer Research ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Visual Method ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the use of visual research methods in the area of recent marketing and consumer research. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was used to investigate visual method in articles from Journal of Consumer Research; Journal of Marketing; Journal of Marketing Research; Journal of Marketing Management; Consumption, Markets, and Culture and Qualitative Market Research. Abstract, key words and methodology sections of all articles published in these six journals from 2002 to 2012 were scanned to identify which of them applied visual methods in their studies. The selected articles were then closely analyzed to discover how visual research methods were used and in what manner did they contribute to the marketing and consumer behavior discipline. Findings – This study found that a growing number of marketing and consumer researchers utilized visual methods to achieve their research goals in various approaches such as cultural inventories, projective techniques and social artifacts. Visual method is useful when research deals with children who are not fully developed and able to comprehend text messages and also advantageous when investigating informants’ metaphorical thoughts about a subject or the content of their mind. Originality/value – This paper examined how visual methods have assisted marketing and consumer researchers in achieving their goals and suggests when and how researchers can utilize the visual methods for future research.

scholarly journals Using Photography as a Creative, Collaborative Research Tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailsa Winton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Social Art

Drawing on debates in the complementary fields of participatory, youth and visual research methods, the paper discusses an experimental photography project carried out as part of a broader study with young people in Mexico City on spatial experience, belonging and exclusion. The paper describes the mechanics of the project, considers the kind of data it produced, and discusses the different outcomes for participants and researcher, including its difficulties and limitations. It finds that the creative, collaborative approach used has potential for opening the research process to embrace creative, reflexive, complicated “selves,” but warns that this outcome is not automatic: collaboration between visual researchers and social art therapy practitioners would be one important step in realizing the full potential of creative photography in research.

scholarly journals Leadership in the Research: Determinants of Quality, Standards and Best Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Henryk Dźwigoł
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Third ◽  
Bartlett’S Test ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
New Research

One of the obligatory elements of any scientific research is a methodical toolkit, the diversity of which determines the reliability of the obtained results and ability to solve the tasks set in the work. The purpose of the article is to identify the factors defining the scientific research process and affect the quality of the results. The methodological tools of the study include questionnaires and factor analysis (Bartlett’s test for sphericity, KMO test (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling adequacy measure), and MSA test (sampling adequacy measure)). The object of research is 401 scientists and 196 practitioners in the field of management and quality sciences. The questionnaire for practitioners consisted of four parts. The first part includes general issues about the research process, methods and techniques used in it; the second deals with the importance of using methods and techniques in the scientific research in the field of management and quality sciences; the third – provides questions on improving the quality of research; the fourth is demographic. The questionnaire for scientists consists of three parts. The first part addresses the importance of approaches, processes, methods and techniques in research in the field of management and quality sciences; the second – includes questions on improving the research process; the third is demographic. The results are summarized on a five-point Likert scale. Based on the generalization of practitioners’ answers, the main factor of scientific research is the “concept of the research methodology model”, defined as a measure of the scientific research process effectiveness. The results of the analysis help conclude the need to develop new research methods that can increase its effectiveness by managing, planning, organizing and verifying the research process in the field of management and quality sciences. The factors determining the research process and affecting its quality include constant changes in the market. It necessitates the use of various research methods that can form a holistic basis for empirical analysis. The research process quality means checking the degree of implementation and consistency of the objectives in the article with the research problem and the conclusions in it. For the effective functioning of the research process, it is proposed to develop an “algorithm of behavior” of the researcher, which will (after determining the appropriate gap between research methods and features of the research problem) ensure their coordination and increase the added value of the results.

Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bagele Chilisa ◽  
Thenjiwe Emily Major ◽  
Kelne Khudu-Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
New Research ◽  
Relational Paradigm

The article engages with debates on democratizing and decolonizing research to promote multi-epistemological research partnerships that revolutionize the research methods landscape, bringing new paradigms onto the map to advance new research methods that engage and transform communities. The argument in the article is that people of all worlds irrespective of geographic location, colour, race, ability, gender or socio-economic status should have equal rights in the research scholarship and research process to name their world views, apply them to define themselves and be heard. An African-based relational paradigm that informs a postcolonial research methodological framework within which indigenous and non–indigenous researchers can fit their research is presented. The article further illustrates how an African relational ontological assumption can inform a complimentary technique of gathering biographical data on the participants and how African relational epistemologies can inform partnership of knowledge systems. The use of proverbs and songs as indigenous literature and community voices that researchers can use to deconstruct stereotypes and deficit theorizing and community-constructed ideologies of dominance is illustrated.

Can visual methods actually challenge hierarchies? A case study from Papua New Guinea

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-388
Author(s):  
Laura Simpson Reeves ◽  
Lauren Leigh Hinthorne
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

Abstract Visual research methods continue to be explored as a viable tool within community development, particularly amongst advocates for participatory approaches. It is widely agreed that visual research methods can assist participants in externalizing abstract concepts and create spaces for reflective dialogue. However, these methods are frequently used across the sector with little theorizing or critical reflection. Moreover, visual research methods and participatory processes are often conflated. There is also an assumption that visual research methods, particularly when used in development contexts, can disrupt power structures. This research draws on a case study from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to modestly challenge this assumption and, in doing so, argues for more critical and reflexive practice across community development. The article critically analyses a workshop held in rural PNG in 2013 that employed a visual multimethod approach. The workshop took place over four days with the aim of creating a local community development plan. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that while the visual research methods used in PNG demonstrated evidence of shifting some power structures, this was not necessarily because of the method or methods themselves, and was actually more closely linked to the locale in which we facilitated the method(s).

scholarly journals Drawing Out Their Stories: A Scoping Review of Participatory Visual Research Methods With Newcomer Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692093339
Author(s):  
Alison Brown ◽  
Rebecca Spencer ◽  
Jessie-Lee McIsaac ◽  
Vivian Howard
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Digital Stories

Researchers are increasingly using participatory visual methods (PVM) to gain a deeper understanding of newcomer children’s experiences, sense of identity, relationships, needs, strengths, and aspirations. By taking photos, producing digital stories, creating maps, drawing, sculpting, and other visual-based practices, children can help us understand how they navigate their complex worlds. We conducted a scoping review to explore what is known about participatory visual research with newcomer children. We searched nine databases, screened 692 articles, and included 21 articles for synthesis and analysis. Five common and connected areas were identified as important for consideration when envisioning, planning, and conducting this type of research with newcomer children: PVM provides an opportunity for children to communicate complex feelings and disrupt deficit discourse; participation in PVM research is highly dependent on varying cultural, economic, and relational factors; providing a range and choice of data collection activities permits deeper engagement and higher quality data; PVM can enhance meaningful engagement, reduce power asymmetry, and engender confidence and self-awareness; developing and sustaining trusted relationships are integral to the research process. The review reveals the need for more researcher reflexivity with an explicit attention to assumptions, values, and ethical considerations and suggests opportunities for researchers to better ensure newcomer children can share and shape their own stories.

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