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 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.

scholarly journals Using Creative Visual Research Methods to Understand Media Audiences

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (Visuelle Methoden) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gauntlett
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Further Development

This article introduces an emerging area of qualitative media «audience» research, in which individuals are asked to produce media or visual material themselves, as a way of exploring their relationship with particular issues or dimensions of media. The process of making a creative visual artefact – as well as the artefact itself (which may be, for example, a video, drawing, collage, or imagined magazine cover) – offers a reflective entry-point into an exploration of individuals» relationships with media culture. This article sets out some of the origins, rationale and philosophy underlying this methodological approach; briefly discusses two example studies (one in which children made videos to consider their relationship with the environment, and one in which young people drew pictures of celebrities as part of an examination of their aspirations and identifications with stars); and finally considers some emerging issues for further development of this method.

Book Review: The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
Dylan Yamada-Rice ◽  
Eve Stirling ◽  
Lisa Procter ◽  
Maram Almansour
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

scholarly journals Weddings and Thai Women: The Construction of Weddings and the Portrayal of Thai Women Through Wedding Stories in Thai Wedding Magazines

MANUSYA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-51
Author(s):  
Permtip Buaphet
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Thai Women ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Primary Resource ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
The Ideal

Thai wedding magazines have been a primary resource for Thai women seeking wedding planning information. This study analyses the construction of weddings and investigates the portrayal of brides within the context of Thai wedding magazines by combining textual analysis and visual research methods. It investigates the social arrangements indicated in these magazines and the associated wedding ideology represented. Data for analysis is based on three magazines (Wedding Guru, We, and Love Wedding Magazine). There were twenty-two magazine issues and one hundred and thirty-two stories in total, covering the period from November 2014 – October 2015. These magazines are targeted at women in their 20s and older. The study reveals how Thai wedding magazines formulate the meaning of weddings and the role of Thai wedding magazines in the transmission of particular ideas about desirable weddings in Thai society, while also reinforcing notions of what constitutes the ideal life for women. Findings in terms of the content indicate that weddings and women as brides in Thai wedding magazines are constructed only in positive ways. That is to say, weddings and the act of becoming a bride are constructed as examples of an already achieved ‘ideal’ life.

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