Photography as a Tool for Understanding Youth
July 9, 2008
This United States-based study examines the use of youth photography as a research method Read more
Youth Photography as an Alternative Measure of Social Capital
July 8, 2008
The Park Hill Photovoice Project examined youth photography as an alternative measure of social capital.
Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change
June 10, 2008
Author: Alfonso Gumucio Dagron. Publication Date, 2001. Video, as a communication tool for development and social change, has always been the subject of comparisons and disputes among the film and the television industries. Read more
Participant Authored Audiovisual Stories (PAAS): Giving The Camera Away or giving the camera a way?
June 6, 2008
Authored by Marcelo Ramella and Gonzalo Olmos .This paper deals with qualitative research methodology based on sound and image data, in particular with audio-visual stories authored by the research participants (Participant
Authored Audiovisual Stories - PAAS). Read more
The Lives Of Child Workers In Nepal
June 6, 2008
By Sita Venkateswar. This phase of the research was undertaken as a pilot study involving children employed in carpet factories in Nepal and those employed as domestic servants in middle class homes, using disposable cameras to document and recount their everyday lives.
While in Kathmandu, I made contact with a number of non-governmental organisations involved in working in a variety of contexts with children in need. The Child Development Society (CDS) has been involved in imparting literacy and non-formal education to children and their parents who work in carpet factories. On discussing my project with the CDS, they were very interested in integrating the research into their own ongoing programmes with the working children. The children who were involved in these programmes were also keen to participate in the project, as were their parents. Ten children and their parents were selected, based on their attendance at these programmes, and their degree of articulacy. The use of disposable cameras was included as one of CDS’ strategies for non-formal education for the subsequent months. The children’s narratives were extended by asking them also to write and illustrate any aspect of their lives by providing them with notebooks, pencils, erasers and colour pencils. Read more
