From photographs to findings: visual meaning-making and interpretive engagement in the analysis of participant-generated images

Drew, Sarah; Guillemin, Marilys

doi:10.1080/1472586x.2014.862994

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“…Our theoretical framework was constructed after finalizing a thorough analysis of the data, to preserve our inductive approach. Photographs and texts exist in an integrated and mutually enhancing relationship, and each of them extends our understanding of the other (Berger, 2013;Drew & Guillemin, 2014;Rapport, Doel, & Elwyn, 2007;Rugg, 1997). All our participants explicitly related their text to their photographs.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore”

Lian

Lorem

2016

Qual Health Res

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In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they experience a sense of belonging/not belonging, and why do places become places of belonging/not belonging? The participants describe experiences of (a) being socially detached and alienated, (b) being imprisoned, (c) being spectators who observe the world, and (d) senses of belonging. They describe senses of being and belonging/not belonging as closely attached to physical and symbolic aspects of places in which they reside, and they wistfully reflect on the question of "why." The study illustrates the influence of experienced place-material as well as immaterial-on health and illness.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore”

Lian

Lorem

2016

Qual Health Res

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“…Photographs and texts can be analysed as 'stand-alone' products, but in addition, each can extend our understanding of the other (Drew & Guillemin, 2014;Rapport, Doel and Elwyn, 2007;Rugg, 1997). During the analysis, we treated each participant's contribution as one story, presented through textual and visual means.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life according to ME: Caught in the ebb-tide

Lian

Rapport

2016

Health (London)

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In this article, we explore the role of 'place' in shaping people's illness experiences through a data-led inductive case-study based on experiential data from people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in Norway. Our main aim is to understand how they experience, interpret and attach meaning to various places in which they reside, and how they construct the course of a life influenced by chronic illness. The study is based on stories containing photographs and written texts, received from 10 women and men. In their stories, they describe those places where they experience their illness in the least and most taxing ways. Through a narrative and photographic analysis of their stories, we explore how they perceive the relationship between place and illness as experienced, managed and endured. Our analysis is based on a placesensitive sociology, in which we approach place both as physicality and a symbolic construction. The participants describe how a wide range of places are intimately linked to their illness experiences, and they interpret these links by referring to both physical and symbolic factors. They describe their lives in terms of a need for equilibrium between activity and rest. Risk is a strong underlying theme: whatever they do, they risk losing something. Most of all, the participants describe how they are looking for places to escape to and from. Places to escape to are those places where privacy and peace can be found, which primarily revolve around being at home.Places to escape from are those places that make their energy 'slowly ebb away'.2

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“…[15] To this Drew & Guillemin add that images "may have multiple meanings, that may change over time, or indeed remain relatively stable." [12] For them, as well as for the other authors mentioned, meaning generation is a co-construction that involves the image, the participants, the researches and the context.…”

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“…[12], [13] From there, we set 6 different variables that enable us to measure the difference between the "description" and the "interpretation" of the photo by participants. Categories considered the difference in terms of adding context: (i.e.…”

Section: Visual Analysis Of Selected Photosmentioning

confidence: 99%