Sharing the Screen: Participatory Methodologies for Virtual Collaboration With Youth Media-Makers

• In Event: Social Media, Identity, and Student Voice

Abstract

This presentation examines what happens when participatory methodologies for educational research are enacted through digital media and across physical distance. Drawing on a year-long, participatory media-making project that “went virtual” in 2020, this presentation investigates how a group of first-gen Latinx youth collaborated virtually to create a YouTube web series documenting their transition to college in the midst of a global pandemic, with broad implications for ethically implementing digital methods into participatory research.

Author

• Bethany Monea, University of Pennsylvania