Description
Book SynopsisEthics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods aims to unpack the multiple considerations for ethics and integrity that accompany research methods involving visual data generation and analysis. This volume focuses on the media of photography and film. Contributing authors cover a variety of topics, including: consent and dignity when working with vulnerable and marginalized populations; the limitations of participatory methods within a context of inequity and postcolonialism; the challenges of anonymising visual data; and the risks of sharing visual data online. The authors share their experiences of working with visual methods across a range of contexts, making recommendations for best practice. This volume is intended to be practical, and the key messages aim to be concrete and applicable for anyone embarking on visual methods research.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Decolonisation, Representation, and Ethics in Visual Life Stories from the Jungle; Aura Lounasmaa, Cigdem Esin and Crispin Hughes Chapter 2. Using Participant-Produced Drawings as an Alternative to Photographs in Ethnographic Research; Angela Mazzetti Chapter 3. The People in the Pictures Research: Taking care with photo elicitation; Siobhan Warrington Chapter 4. “Can I take your photo?” The practicalities of managing informed consent with vulnerable populations; Robert Godden Chapter 5. Possibilities and Challenges: Issues in ethical filmmaking using It Stays With You as a case study; Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills Chapter 6. Navigating the Necessary Risks and Emergent Ethics of Visual Methods with Marginalised People; Jacqueline Shaw Chapter 7. Ethics and the Archive: Access, appropriation, exhibition; Ciara Chambers Chapter 8. Ethical Issues in a Participatory Photography Research Project; Susan M. Brigham and Mohamed Kharbach Chapter 9. Letting images “speak for themselves”? User interpretation and the ethical considerations for sharing visual data online; Alice Neeson Chapter 10. The Ethics of Screen Scholarship; Jennie Carlsten
