From concept to data: sleuthing social change-oriented youth voices on YouTube

Caron, Caroline; Raby, Rebecca; Mitchell, Claudia; Théwissen-LeBlanc, Sophie; Prioletta, Jessica

doi:10.1080/13676261.2016.1184242

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“…To date this has been studied largely in the arena of online activism and youth studies (as opposed to a focus on girls and young women). It has been noted (Rheingold 2008;Jenkins et al 2009), for example, that when adolescents and young adults engage with online participatory cultures and digital communication (blogging, social media networking, instant-messaging and online sharing of user-generated content), they are learning to develop a public voice (see also, Caron et al 2016). Civic engagement (political activism, deliberation, problem solving) requires the effective use of a public voice (Levine 2008;Rheingold 2008).…”

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Challenging Turbulent Times: Towards a Framework for Girl-Led Transnational Dialogues to Combat Sexual Violence

Mitchell¹

2018

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Claudia Mitchell – PhD, James McGill Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Email: Claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca Turbulent times in relation to sexual violence in the lives of girls and young women call for solidarity and global action. One of the effects of globalization is the increased recognition of a borderless world that, in some ways, erases the boundaries between 'over there' and 'over here', challenging some of the distinctions behind a Global North and a Global South. In this article, I offer an analysis of the issues behind sexual violence, which frame the possibilities for research teams working with girls and young women across the Global North and the Global South. At the same time, I highlight the possibilities for learning more about North-North and South-South interactions. What would such an approach entail and what kinds of strategies are useful for sustaining such a strategy in combating sexual violence? In particular, how can such a framework support dialogue? In order to address these questions the article suggests a practical framework which draws on the findings from a Canada-South Africa project, Networks for Change and in particular focuses on the importance of advocating for a public voice for girls and young women that is framed within an activist agenda. The article refers to this approach as a 'circles within circles' approach, arguing for both bringing together girls and young women who have been involved in participatory visual work from a number of country contexts, and ensuring that the circle puts girls and young women at the centre.

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Challenging Turbulent Times: Towards a Framework for Girl-Led Transnational Dialogues to Combat Sexual Violence

Mitchell¹

2018

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“…The data we use to theorize these sites and forms of surveillance and sousveillance were gathered by conducting a cyberethnography of trans men's testosterone vlogs. Our research uses techniques in the emerging methodology of cyberethnography (Caron et al 2017;Duncum 2011;Kuntsman 2004;O'Neill 2014;Snelson 2015;Taylor, Falconer, and Snowdon 2014). We are informed in particular by Adi Kuntsman's (2004) articulation of "cyberethnography," whereby we engage with the internet as a physical location that may be explored and interpreted.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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This is My Voice on T: Synthetic Testosterone, DIY Surveillance, and Transnormative Masculinity

Borck

Moore

2019

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How have biomedical innovation, regulation, and distribution of pharmaceutical testosterone prescribed to trans men created new forms of medical, community, and individual surveillance of masculinity and masculinization? Our systematic analysis of more than one hundred trans men’s testosterone vlogs provides evidence for the production (and consumption) and reproduction of a very narrow set of hegemonic scripts about what a male body is, how it is achieved, and what it means to become a man. We find in this medium, multiple overlapping agents of surveillance: the state, the medical–industrial complex, the interactive loop between ourselves and our screens, the videographer and the trans man, the viewer and watched, hegemonic masculinity and its internalizations. We offer a critical feminist reading of the way that surveillance technologies produce a particular type of transmasculine subject with consequences for cultural understandings of gender nonconformity.

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“…Although I did not have access to all of the publications I consider here while I dissertated, I include them now because they contribute to the current conversation and to my ongoing consideration of this issue. Several authors (Caron, Raby, Mitchell, Théwissen-LeBlanc, & Prioletta, 2017;Giglietto, Rossi, & Bennato, 2012;Highfield & Leaver, 2016) point to the lack of consensus among researchers about how to ethically evaluate the usage of information that is publicly available on social media platforms. The degree to which writers problematize the matter of utilizing YouTube video postings for research purposes falls along a continuum.…”

Section: Youtube Videos As Datamentioning

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“…Although they do not always include detailed information about the ethical considerations influencing the choice, some other researchers report having received permission from the individuals whose videos they used in their studies (e.g., Frobenius, 2014;Harley & Fitzpatrick, 2009). Others at least briefly discuss the ethical perspectives associated with the data type, but ultimately discern without much trouble that their usage of the data is appropriate (Berger, 2012;Caron et al, 2017;Laurier, 2016;Misoch, 2014). As justification for their choices, these authors often cite the following: Those who share their videos on YouTube do so with knowledge that the resulting uploads are available to anyone with Internet access, and YouTube users have access to settings that will render their videos unsearchable by unknown others if they so desire.…”

Section: Youtube Videos As Datamentioning

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YouTube Generated Video Clips as Qualitative Research Data: One Researcher’s Reflections on the Process

Patterson

2018

Qualitative Inquiry

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The ever-developing arena of social media blurs lines separating public and private spheres. Voluntary usage of social media platforms transforms users’ personal and sometimes private imaginings into publicly accessible artifacts. The entanglement of these two domains demands society’s consideration as policy makers, employers, and qualitative inquirers contend with making meaning of messages initiated within the social media sphere in a world extending beyond it. In this article, I reflect on interplay with a subset of data from my dissertation featuring transcripts pulled from YouTube videos posted by self-identified biracial individuals. As I attempted to instill dialogic properties into what could have been unidirectional interactions, I confronted several challenges. I managed pressures of simultaneous allegiances to my research goals and to the integrities of my informants who were not aware that they were informing me. This article provides insight into navigating these tensions, which are necessary and, to date, too scarcely available.

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From concept to data: sleuthing social change-oriented youth voices on YouTube

Cited by 30 publications

References 34 publications

Challenging Turbulent Times: Towards a Framework for Girl-Led Transnational Dialogues to Combat Sexual Violence

Challenging Turbulent Times: Towards a Framework for Girl-Led Transnational Dialogues to Combat Sexual Violence

This is My Voice on T: Synthetic Testosterone, DIY Surveillance, and Transnormative Masculinity

YouTube Generated Video Clips as Qualitative Research Data: One Researcher’s Reflections on the Process

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