66.053 - Turning Away From Text in Qualitative Research: Possibilities in Image- and Audio-Based Methods

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Qualitative research practices are often text-heavy; interviews and focus groups are transcribed, analyzed, and later represented, as text. This session explores the potential of audio and image-based qualitative research methods to disrupt, shift and expand results and relationships within educational research. Presenting studies involving migrant youth, refugee girls, and community organizations doing land rematriation, this session asks: what is at work in image and audio-driven methods? What is made possible, and what are the limitations? The papers discuss aspects of visual/image and audio-driven methods which activate issues of representation, redefinitions of relationships between researchers and participants, what counts as data and comprises data analysis. Presenters will discuss ethical dilemmas, lines of flight, and insights gained in turning away from text.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

Papers

• Refusal and Representation in Photovoice - Deanna Del Vecchio, University of Toronto; Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

• Expanding Oral History: Mobile Podcasting and Geotagging With Refugee Girls - Michelle S. Bae-Dimitriadis, Buffalo State College - SUNY

• Somewhere Recordings: Land- and Place-Based "Research" Relationships - K. Wayne Yang, University of California - San Diego

• Frameworking: Making Meaning Through One's Own Lens in a Youth Participatory Action Research Photovoice Camp - Nisha Toomey, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama