Assignment 3 Q & A Hi everyone, I will be posting your questions and my answers I have received about the Photovoice assignment here. Please continue to use this thread for any questions you have. 1) Q: So what is the assignment about? A: You are to construct your assignment like it is a case study of one participant in a Photovoice project. While many papers use the data from a number of participants, yours is to focus on just one participant only. There are plenty of Photovice journal articles that use just one participant, for example you could look at my paper, Jarldorn, M. (2016). What can Ruby do with a camera? Ex-prisoners use Photovoice to reverse the rules of surveillance. Qualitative Social Work, 15(2), 209-230. 2) Q: Are we writing an article about the importance of photovoice as a research method and how the findings from the photo voice relate to community development? OR are we writing about our community group, the need for community development and using photovoice as a tool to demonstrate that need? A: you can really take any one of these approaches or combine ideas from each. Ultimately your paper should include recommendations that are focused on community. 3) Q: I want to focus on the transgender community but I did not find a specific character that is transgender in the role play. Can I just make up a transgender person? A: As per the instructions, the participant needs to be one of the people you met during last weeks role plays. 4) Q: Can I choose the group of people who have anxiety or depression,which did not included in the previous role-plays, as my target group for my final assignment? A: Potentially, any person from any of the role plays could have anxiety or depression. 5) Q: Can I use one of the community groups we created last week in my paper? A: yes you can Question from student I'm considering the following approach: • I'd like to place photos in an appendix • and use footnote to reference data and other information As this is neater, saves on word count re actual assignment and easier to read Please clarify Answer I would prefer it if the images and their accompanying narratives are embedded within the paper, following the template as a guide. The sections in the template are in the logical order that you will find in countless photo voice papers. The participant data is important, remember the focus of the topic has been the voices of the community, so relegating them to the appendix goes against this idea. Generally footnotes are only used to broadly explain a concept that would appear to clunky to sit within the paper. The important area where references should not be too old is in the overview section of your paper. This is where ypu need to be using current facts and stats. So for example, if you were talking about the number of reported domestic violence incidents, you would not use figures from 2005. But, if you were writing about the dynamics of domestic violence, it would be ok to use a 2005 reference. A similar example would be if you were talking about Australia's prison population. You would need to use the most recent ABS reference possible to show the closest total, but to show prison population growth it would be good to show the prison population in 2007 and in 2017--that way you could dramatically show the rapid rise. yet alongside that, you might discuss Goffman's Total Institution concept , which is probably 50+ years old. Question: I was wondering if you have time can you answer a question for me. I know that we have to choose a person from our group work however do we have to create a community group for him or write about the one that they are in. Does this make sense so say I choose Daniel in foster care do I create a community group like we did or do we just focus on photovoice for the existing group Answer: it is not that you have to create a community group, but your recommendations section should have 'community like' recommendations. So, they won't recommend psychological services or individual counselling, but will link more broadly to community groups, advocacy, protest, policy improvement and/or societal change Question I have one more question but it relates to the use of photovoice rather than just the assignment. I think you mentioned that you didn't have allow photos of images in photovoice? Is that because of the community you were working with or a more general principle of photovoice? I'm interested because I would have thought it would be up to the participants themselves, so long as they had permission to take images? Am I misunderstanding something? Permalink | Show parent | Reply Answer Yes, it was because of the community i was working with and needing to get the project passed through the university ethics process. What I did do though was create a photo release form in case participants had a burning desire to take a photograph of somebody important to their lives/journey, but nobody did this and instead they found ways around the use of peoples images. There is a beautiful photo voice paper done with sex workers in the journal Qualitative Social Work that demonstrates how they represented themselves and others in their photographs, see Using photovoice with sex workers: The power of art, agency and resistance Moshoula Capous Desyllas Qualitative Social Work, vol. 13, 4: pp. 477-501 Question My photo voice is about young mothers, social isolation and stigma. I'm just wondering, In the analysis section do I link common themes between my photos and the body of research on this topic (providing references) or is the analysis section strictly for analyzing the photos and what they mean for that one individual, not relating it back to the wider social problem for all young mothers? Answer In your analysis section the focus would mostly be on your analysis of the 'data' [eg the images and narratives] and how that relates back to the literature you have used earlier in the paper, but if you can support your analysis with peer reviewed literature, that would definitely strengthen your argument