Visual informed consent: informed consent without forms

Informed Consent in Social Sciences Research: Ethical Challenges

“…In research processes, the issue of status differences between researchers and individuals, groups and organisations involved in the research is often raised (Lie & Witteveen, 2017). These differences in status should not be manipulated by researchers to obtain coercive information, nor should social scientists allow themselves to be manipulated by informants (Almeida, 2013).…”

“…Hence, researchers must have enough emotional maturity and moral integrity to manage the situation of sociological ambivalence that confronts them with the «dilemma of double fidelity»: to the scientific community that seeks results and to the collective, or social groups, that have entrusted them with the information (Carmo & Ferreira, 1998). This information should, whenever possible (Lie & Witteveen, 2017), be written in a language that is easily understood by the selected participant population and read by the participants. Participants are then invited to sign and date a document stating that they agree to participate.…”

Kusheh, na minem Fatu, en mi na koko farmer Hello, I am Fatu and I am a cocoa farmer : a Digital Farmer Field School for training in cocoa production and certification in Sierra Leone

“…The informed consent procedure sought alignment with the principle of visual informed consent (Lie & Witteveen, 2015) and consent was also documented on paper. In the farmer villages, most farmers did not sign, but put an inked fingerprint.…”

The practice of informal tourism entrepreneurs: a Bourdieusian perspective

“…The use of visual data -encompassing images, photographs, video films, advertising media, graphic representations, and postcards -is gaining ground in the social sciences (Heath, Hindmarsh, & Luff, 2010;Lie & Witteveen, 2017;Pauwels, 2010;Pink, 2013;Rose, 2012). In tourism studies in particular, images and visual data can play a central role and allow researchers to access and create knowledge about phenomena that are less accessible by merely using the more traditional non-visual methods (Rakic & Chambers, 2010).…”