Comics-based research: The affordances of comics for research across disciplines

Kuttner, Paul J.; Weaver‐Hightower, Marcus B.; Sousanis, Nick

doi:10.1177/1468794120918845

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“…Reviewing comics from various aspects has been done by [30]. They reveal that comics have taken different forms over time, but some researchers use them in traditional ways (e.g., printed comics in face-to-face learning).…”

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Digital Comics in Online Learning During COVID-19: Its Effect on Student Cognitive Learning Outcomes

Damopolii

Lumembang

İlhan

2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<p class="0abstract">Comics have been used as an alternative tool to improve student learning outcomes during the pandemic, but not yet for junior high school science learning.<strong> </strong>The study aims to explore the impact of digital comics in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic on students' cognitive learning outcomes (CLO). A quasi-experimental research design was used in the study. A total of 42 eighth-grade students participated in the current study. They were randomly assigned to two conditions. The first condition was online learning assisted by digital comic media. The second condition was non-comic online learning. A multiple-choice test developed by the researchers was used to measure students' CLO. Although the number of participants is limited, an independent samples t-test was used to analyze the data because the data was normally distributed. The results show that students' CLO differs significantly between comic and non-comic assisted online learning in favor of comic assisted online learning conditions. The possible reasons behind the findings were discussed. As a conclusion, several suggestions for researchers and teachers were offered.</p>

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Comics in Online Learning During COVID-19: Its Effect on Student Cognitive Learning Outcomes

Damopolii

Lumembang

İlhan

2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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“…Talk in comics is commonly displayed in speech bubbles that, like the panels, are organized left-toright and top-to-bottom. Different fonts can indicate prosodic features, as can the outline of the bubbles by being, e.g., dotted (whispering) or spiky (shouting) (Eisner, 2001;Kuttner et al, 2020;Laurier, 2019;McCloud et al, 1994;Wallner, 2017aWallner, , 2017b. Necessary information not shown clearly in the picture can be displayed in caption boxes in the panels (Kuttner et al, 2020;Laurier, 2014Laurier, , 2019.…”

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How to Use Comic-Strip Graphics to Represent Signed Conversation

Skedsmo¹

2021

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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This article explores comic-strip-inspired graphic transcripts as a tool to present conversational video data from informal multiperson conversations in a signed language, specifically Norwegian Sign Language (NTS). The interlocutors' utterances are represented as English translations in speech bubbles rather than glossed or phonetically transcribed NTS, and the article discusses advantages and disadvantages of this unconventional choice. To contextualize this exploration of graphic transcripts, a small-scale analysis of a stretch of interaction is embedded in the article. The extract shows conversational trouble and repair occurring when interlocutors respond to utterances produced while they as recipients were looking elsewhere. The NTS extract is introduced with a short sample of multilinear, Jefferson-inspired glossed transcript and then presented in full as graphic transcript. The article concludes that for presenting nonsensitive data, graphic transcripts have several advantages, such as improved access to visual features, flexible granularity, and enhanced readability. Data are in Norwegian Sign Language with English translations.

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“…Comics as an artform have a long history (Kuttner et al, 2021;Meskin, 2007). Whilst the definition of a comic has been heavily critiqued and contested (Meskin, 2007), it is accepted that usually this medium has a reliance on the interplay between images and text with a greater reliance on images to convey a message.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the dissemination process for the overall study was as much about getting the audiences to be aware of the findings as it was to consider how these issues might impact their own practices. I became increasingly mindful of how comics could create engagement, something Kuttner et al (2021) argue for in their discussion of how comic-based research might evolve. To attempt to move beyond the comic form as purely a researcher-driven form of dissemination, this also led to the comic being developed to include an interactive element (Figure 4).…”

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Stripping back the novelty: A critical reflection on the dual use of a comic-based approach to engage participants and publics

Rainford

2021

Methodological Innovations

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There has been increasing use of comic-based approaches within qualitative research as part of an increase in creative and visual methods more generally within social science research. However, whilst increasingly prevalent in dissemination, their use within data collection is less common. This paper examines the dual use of a comic-based approach embedded within a study that explored widening participation in higher education. Initially developed for the triangulation of emergent research findings with a wider group of participants, a comic panel was developed to be used as a focus of discussions within a workshop with 11 practitioners. This was then further developed for wider dissemination and to create a space for dialogue and to engage wider publics with the study’s recommendations. Both uses are critically examined, highlighting the affordances of comic-based approaches such as their capacity for supporting dissemination to a wider audience by distilling the findings and presenting them in an engaging way. Furthermore, it argues that the form can allow for creating points of ambiguity that create spaces for the audience to challenge and question taken for granted assumptions on a topic. The paper also sets out possible challenges such the need for specialist skills, the potential for oversimplification and misrepresentation of complex issues. This paper argues that with careful planning, comic-based approaches can add significant value and increase engagement with research. Finally, it offers suggestions for how this approach could be developed by future researchers.

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Comics-based research: The affordances of comics for research across disciplines

Cited by 102 publications

References 38 publications

Digital Comics in Online Learning During COVID-19: Its Effect on Student Cognitive Learning Outcomes

Digital Comics in Online Learning During COVID-19: Its Effect on Student Cognitive Learning Outcomes

How to Use Comic-Strip Graphics to Represent Signed Conversation

Stripping back the novelty: A critical reflection on the dual use of a comic-based approach to engage participants and publics

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