1st Edition

Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action

Edited By Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, Marty Otañez Copyright 2015
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors’ Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how innovative visual and digital research techniques are being used in various field projects in health care, environmental policy, urban planning, education and youth development, and heritage management settings. These methodologies produce rich visual and narrative data guided by participant interests and priorities, key tools for collaborative work. The 16 chapters-include digital storytelling, PhotoVoice, community-based filmmaking, participatory mapping and GIS, and participatory digital archival research;-provide a portfolio of model research projects for researchers who wish to collaborate on community-based studies;-will appeal to an audience across social science, heritage, health, education, and social service fields.An open-access companion website will allow readers to view the research products presented in each contributor's chapter.

    1: Introduction; 1: Digital Storytelling; 2: Are We Listening Yet? Participatory Knowledge Production through Media Practice: Encounters of Political Listening; 3: Digital Storytelling and the Viral Hepatitis Project; 2: Photovoice; 4: Picturing Transactional $ex: Ethics, Challenges, and Possibilities; 5: Seeing Differently: Enticing Reflexivity in the Futurescape City Tours; 3: Participatory Video; 6: In Our Grandmothers' Garden: An Indigenous Approach to Collaborative Film; 7: A Hard Way Out: Improvisational Film and Youth Participatory Action Research; 4: Participatory Mapping and GIS; 8: Counter-Mapping as Situated Knowledge: Integrating Lay Expertise in Participatory Geographic Research; 9: Beyond Words: The Transformative Practice (and Politics) of Digital Spatial and Visual Ethnography in a Rural Shale Gas Boomtown; 10: Resurrecting Rosewood: New Heritage as Applied Visual Anthropology; 5: Participatory Digital Archives and Museums; 11: Ethnography of an Ethnographic Somali Photography Archive in Maine; 12: Showcasing Heritage: Engaging Local Communities through Museum Practice; 13: PeruDigital: Ethnographic Storytelling through Iterative Design; 6: Participatory Design Ethnography; 14: Participatory Design for the Common Good; 15: Caminemos Juntos: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Design in Northeast Los Angeles; 16: Games without Frontiers: App Design as Networked Anthropology

    Biography

    Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, Marty Otañez