Diaries and Case Studies

McGregor, Jessica

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“…Solicited diaries have also been successfully used to explore sensitive aspects of chronic illness and health across disciplinary boundaries (Grinyer, 2004, Mackrill, 2008, Theodosius, 2006, Elliot, 1997. While much of the literature on solicited (paper) diaries is useful to an examination of the audio diary method, it is important to go beyond the claim that audio diaries are a simple change of format when 'literacy is a constraint' (McGregor, 2006).…”

Section: Audio Diary As Research Methodsmentioning

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Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience

Worth

2009

Sociological Research Online

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This article examines the use of audio diaries as an innovative method for research with young people. As the second stage of a project about visually impaired (VI) young people's transitions to adulthood, young people recorded their experiences and reflections about growing up on microcassette recorders. As a follow-up to a narrative interview, audio diaries allowed the research to get closer to the lives of young people, as participants actively reinterpreted the research questions in the context of their own lives. This article focuses on the utility of audio diaries—detailing the research process and the accessibility of the method for VI young people. Then, using excerpts from a set of twenty-two audio diaries, this article examines how the audio diary technique designed for this project engages with three key issues: how audio diaries capture narrative in distinctive ways; how the method can be employed within a participatory framework; and how audio diaries raise complex issues about the nature of audience.

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Section: Audio Diary As Research Methodsmentioning

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Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience

Worth

2009

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“…Another benefit of journaling is to enable the researcher access to sensitive, highly personal or traumatic information, such as intimate relationships or sexual assault, in a way that other methods may not (Thomas ). As a mechanism that ensures participants are in control of how much they share and when, journaling provides a space in which individuals may be more comfortable sharing private or painful stories, or discussing personal and emotional topics (McGregor ; Meth 2004; Meth and McClymont ). For our research, journaling provided vendors with a space to share their stories of developing an everyday politics regarding local government directives, revealing insights into how different forms of power intersect.…”

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Doing resistance their own way: counter‐narratives of street vending in Hanoi, Vietnam through solicited journaling

Eidse

Turner

2014

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This paper explores the strengths and complexities of using solicited journals/diaries with a marginalised, itinerant population in Vietnam's capital city Hanoi. We draw on journals completed by Hanoi street vendors to better understand the everyday lived experiences of a population targeted by state officials for fines and retribution. Since 2008, street vending has been banned on a number of streets and public spaces in Hanoi. Yet concurrently, livelihood options for those without formal education or skills are increasingly limited. Based on solicited journals kept by street vendors during 2012, we find that journals provide a channel for everyday politics and subtle resistance measures to be reflected on by research participants, and for detailed understandings of state–society relations to emerge. Moreover, from an analysis of participants' journal entries as well as de‐briefing interviews, we consider the strengths and complexities of this qualitative method, situated within a context of state‐induced fear among an itinerant and sometimes non‐literate population. While the strengths of the approach became quickly apparent in the detailed and insightful narratives we received, literacy limitations, vendor feelings of inadequacy regarding journal entry style and complications regarding a sense of obligation to us as researchers raise a number of concerns. Researchers must therefore reflect carefully on the practicalities, ethics and power relations involved with this method. Nonetheless, we also note how participants became inspired to rework the journaling process to meet their own needs and were empowered to circumnavigate state controls to voice counter‐narratives of their rights to the street.

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“…It is recognized that solicited diaries can provide insight into the taken for granted assumptions that shape everyday actions and meanings (McGregor 2006). While the ability to be independent and ‘see for yourself’, i.e.…”

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Eliciting emotions in HIV/AIDS research: a diary‐based approach

Thomas¹

2007

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Little attention has been given to understanding the emotional well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries, despite the fact that emotions may impact on people's sense of purpose and value, and ultimately their ability and resolve to hold livelihood and familial responsibilities together. Drawing upon research undertaken in the Caprivi Region of Namibia, this paper examines the use of solicited text and photo diaries in enabling insight into the emotional impacts of HIV/AIDS. The advantages and constraints of diary methods are examined, focusing on informant-directed research and the ethical considerations surrounding their use.

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Diaries and Case Studies

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Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience

Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience

Doing resistance their own way: counter‐narratives of street vending in Hanoi, Vietnam through solicited journaling

Eliciting emotions in HIV/AIDS research: a diary‐based approach

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