Through the looking glass: considering the challenges visual methodologies raise for qualitative research

Lynn, Nick; Lea, Susan

doi:10.1191/1478088705qp039oa

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“…Increasingly, social researchers are being encouraged to use visual methodologies (de Lange, Mitchell, Moletsane, Staurt, & Buthelezi, 2006;Gillies et al, 2005;Lynn & Lea, 2005;Martin, 2004;Temple & McVittie, 2005).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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“I have undergone some metamorphosis!” The Impact of REds on South African Educators Affected by the Hiv/Aids Pandemic. A Pilot Study

Theron

2008

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I have undergone some metamorphosis!” The Impact of REds on South African Educators Affected by the Hiv/Aids Pandemic. A Pilot Study

Theron

2008

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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“…However, the role that the researcher plays in collecting video data is not to be underestimated-point a lens at someone and, in comparison with participant observation, there is a qualitatively different interaction effect. This consequence is considered one of the main challenges to visual methodologies for qualitative research (Lynn & Lea, 2005). Thus, video research is particularly conscious of reflexivity-the awareness of the researcher's role in acquiring data (MacDougall, 2006).…”

Section: Video As Qualitative Enquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

Unveiling videos: Consumer‐generated ads as qualitative inquiry

Berthon

Pitt

DesAutels

2011

Psychology and Marketing

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Companies spend millions of dollars researching consumers, consumer attitudes to brands, and consumer uses of products. Yet the irony is that consumers are now doing this research themselves and posting their material to video-sharing sites such as YouTube. In this paper we argue that the BASIC IDS framework (Cohen, 1999) for dimensional qualitative research can be used to deconstruct consumer-generated videos to yield valuable insights into the paradoxes of consumer-service interactions. One category of service that has gained huge media attention of late, and yet is poorly understood, is the phenomenon of online social networks. Using three consumergenerated ads about the social networking site Facebook, we explore the paradoxes of consumer-service interaction, namely consumers' ambivalent attitudes to the service, how the consumer uses and is used by the service, how the service both facilitates behavior and changes behavior, and how the service mediates social interactions yet drives social actors. Finally, we locate the findings in terms of the wider context of Gen Y and the digital revolution, specify limitations, and cite implications and avenues for future research.

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“…Our decision to use photographs as means of eliciting discussions around memories and adoption was thus made on the basis that parents are already engaging in this practice with their children in the community, without any prior intervention from the researchers. The use of what has been termed 'photo-elicitation' work thus involves using photographs that people already have or have taken in the course of the research to access ways of understanding that may not be accessed via speech alone (Lynne & Lea, 2005;Radley & Taylor, 2003). The strength of using the photographs in this research was found in their ongoing use in the lives of the adoptive parents and the significant detail they would be able to recall when discussing issues relating to memory more generally (cf.…”

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Vicarious and post‐memory practices in adopting families: The re‐production of the past through photography and narrative

Brookfield

Brown

Reavey

2008

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In this paper, we explore how adoptive parents manage and order visual information relating to their adoptive child's birth or foster family. More specifically, our task is to make sense of the ways in which the memories that children have of their past families are (re)constructed and managed within the context of present adoptive parental concerns. Life story books have become a dominant way in which narratives of the child's past family are formed. The aim of this book is to provide the child with relevant information, objects, possessions and images of the past and to create a coherent narrative between the past and the present. Parents are encouraged to make use of visual images, consisting mainly of photographs of birth families and foster carers to order the autobiography of the child. To date, there is no research that has examined how the process is experienced by parents and children. In order to examine how parents made use of visual information in particular, we carried out two focus groups with adoptive parents who participated in an adoption agency support group. A social remembering approach informed the questions asked, and a discursive analysis of the data was developed. The main analytical focus in this paper is on how photographs, objects and places serve as active participants in the production of the adoptive children's memory.

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Through the looking glass: considering the challenges visual methodologies raise for qualitative research

Cited by 41 publications

References 13 publications

“I have undergone some metamorphosis!” The Impact of REds on South African Educators Affected by the Hiv/Aids Pandemic. A Pilot Study

“I have undergone some metamorphosis!” The Impact of REds on South African Educators Affected by the Hiv/Aids Pandemic. A Pilot Study

Unveiling videos: Consumer‐generated ads as qualitative inquiry

Vicarious and post‐memory practices in adopting families: The re‐production of the past through photography and narrative

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