Using Digital Video as a Research Tool: Ethical Issues Regarding the Distribution and Transformation of Visual Content

• In Event: 34.094 - Fairmont Royal York Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: 34.094-8 - Conducting Qualitative Research: Tools, Approaches, and Ways of (Re)Thinking Qualitative Research

Abstract

This study addresses a niche in the literature regarding how, and through which means, practitioners can effectively promote, advance, and mobilize social justice scholarship, while also maintaining ethical standards for data collection and dissemination via the internet. We draw on qualitative interviews with 10 participants, each of whom created digital videos as part of their graduate-level studies at a major North American university. This paper examines ethical considerations for including participants in the representation and distribution of videotaped content through identifying the different levels of “publicness” or privacy preferred by participants when sharing ethnographic video research.

Authors

• Rebecca Hughes, University of Toronto

• Danica Vidotto, University of Toronto

• Karyn A. Cooper, University of Toronto