RETRACTED: Visual Research Methods: Using Cameras to Empower Socially Excluded Black Youth

Wright, Cecile; Darko, Natalie; Standen, Penny; Patel, Tina

doi:10.1177/0038038510362483

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“…The importance of collaborative participation is a factor making photography a popular choice for visual methods researchers, too. Many scholars using VRM report that asking people to take photographs is a good way to enrol participants into a research project because taking photographs is perceived as easy and fun -it is ordinary, if not always everyday -and participants get something from their involvement: the photos (Darbyshire et al, 2005;Wright et al, 2010). Taking photographs also draws on many people's existing skills and it thus allows them to participate more confidently in the research project than, for example, drawing, mapping, painting or working as a graphic novelist (Bagnoli, 2009;Crilly et al, 2006;Galman, 2009).…”

Section: Vrm and The Social Their Use Enacts: Making Things Visiblementioning

confidence: 99%

On the Relation between ‘Visual Research Methods’ and Contemporary Visual Culture

Rose

2014

The Sociological Review

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One of the most striking developments across the social sciences in the past decade has been the growth of research methods using visual materials. It is often suggested that this growth is somehow related to the increasing importance of visual images in contemporary social and cultural practice. However, the form of the relationship between ‘visual research methods’ and ‘contemporary visual culture’ has not yet been interrogated. This paper conducts such an interrogation, exploring the relation between ‘visual research methods’ – as they are constituted in quite particular ways by a growing number of handbooks, reviews, conference and journals – and contemporary visual culture – as characterized by discussions of ‘convergence culture’. The paper adopts a performative approach to ‘visual research methods’. It suggests that when they are used, ‘visual research methods’ create neither a ‘social’ articulated through culturally mediated images, nor a ‘research participant’ competency in using such images. Instead, the paper argues that the intersection of visual culture and ‘visual research methods’ should be located in their shared way of using images, since in both, images tend to be deployed much more as communicational tools than as representational texts. The paper concludes by placing this argument in the context of recent discussions about the production of sociological knowledge in the wider social field.

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Section: Vrm and The Social Their Use Enacts: Making Things Visiblementioning

confidence: 99%

On the Relation between ‘Visual Research Methods’ and Contemporary Visual Culture

Rose

2014

The Sociological Review

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170

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“…However, elicitation techniques involve researchers defining the task(s) and method for participants, whether through the photography of places one might like to go or not, favourite pastimes, memorable sights from a daily walk to or from home and so on (Wright et al, 2010). The role of the researcher(s) in defining the task and method and in analysis of the fieldwork is premised on decisions they make about what to explore and review to meet research objectives, even if participants have autonomy within this.…”

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Making methods sociable: dialogue, ethics and authorship in qualitative research

Sinha

Back

2013

Qualitative Research

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The article argues for fostering sociable forms of dialogue in qualitative research. Conventional research shares an emphasis on extracting narratives with judicial and invasive state modes of enquiry rather than on learning from a genuine two-way dialogue between participants and researchers. Using a study of young migrants we show how involving participants as observers and shapers of analytical dialogue can produce circulations of communication oscillating across the researcher's and participant's horizons of understanding. This produces new insight, beyond the limits of qualitative investigation, that extracts information from participants, and in so doing has the potential to affect shifts in perception that animate and enchant experience. It has consequences for re-thinking authorship that share, credit and specify responsibility.Developing such an approach opposes the 'ethical hypochondria' characterising qualitative research culture, where 'automatic anonymity' is limiting the potential of research to travel, connect people and engage the public imagination. KEYWORDSAuthorship/auto-ethnography/ethics/migration/participatory methods/

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“…Visual and creative methods have been used as a way of gaining insight into the context of the young person's lived experience (Wright, Darko, Standen & Patel, 2010). Through these methods young people are able to ''construct accounts of their lives in their own terms'' (Holloway & Valentine, 2000, p. 8).…”

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Seen But Seldom Heard: Creative Participatory Methods in a Study of Youth and Risk

Fenge

Hodges

Cutts

2011

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper presents a discussion of the methodologies used in a small scale 'popular education' project involving young people in creative activities. The goal of the project is to explore their experiences and feelings about risk and safety and their 'connectedness' to their local community. A number of different methods are discussed as ways of empowering marginalised young people, including the use of visual methods, and new media in the form of blogs and Twitter Scripts, within an overarching participatory methodology. Arts-based and multimedia activities are powerful tools to enable young people to collectively question the nature of their historical and social situation and have the potential to raise sensitive issues, therefore, encouraging wider debate, producing new understandings, and facilitating social change. Building on insights gained in earlier research, which suggested that young people felt that they were not listened to or had enough influence in their neighbourhoods, this paper discusses the use of multimedia and creative means to develop a more accessible and effective arena in which young people can learn new skills to enable them to tell their story. In keeping with Bourdieu's General Theoretical Framework, consideration is given to the ways in which such participatory and arts-based approaches can demonstrate value for the social and cultural capital of young people.

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RETRACTED: Visual Research Methods: Using Cameras to Empower Socially Excluded Black Youth

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Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

On the Relation between ‘Visual Research Methods’ and Contemporary Visual Culture

On the Relation between ‘Visual Research Methods’ and Contemporary Visual Culture

Making methods sociable: dialogue, ethics and authorship in qualitative research

Seen But Seldom Heard: Creative Participatory Methods in a Study of Youth and Risk

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