Youth media and YPAR: Affect and learning to research together with mediamaking

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all of the youth and adult allies at Cyphers for Justice, and in particular Dr. Danielle Filipiak, Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, and Dr. Limarys Caraballo for their support and feedback that greatly strengthened this paper and made it possible.

Ethics and IRB approval

Data featured in this paper was collected under IRB approval from the Human Research Protection Program, Queens College, City University of New York for study 380204-3. Participants signed approved consent forms.

Disclosure statement

No potential competing interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 These principles apply to any video, film, television show, etc., and I think it’s best to let youth choose so they connect with and have an opportunity to share the media. Pre-selecting was a weakness and opportunity to improve from this particular session.

2 On reflection, breaking from this schooling pattern in this part of the workshop could be an opportunity for my own pedagogical growth and experimentation.

3 I’m aware of the irony that affect theorists might critique this distinction and want to draw in the inseparability of the observer and the observed, but I still think it’s a useful step in learning to research to break analyses and observations into these categories, if only to later complicate them, because making arguments using evidence is a foundational skill.

4 Transcript edited for formatting and to protect confidentiality of speakers.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Institute of Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Notes on contributors

Joseph Riina-Ferrie

Joseph Riina-Ferrie is a doctoral student in applied anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He works with a group of scholars at the Media and Social Change Lab at Teachers College to think through the affordances of using forms of communication other than (or in addition to) written words in research and scholarship. He is interested in opportunities to use collaborative mediamaking as a tool for fostering inclusivity in research, representation, and political processes. His research interests include media in education and the intersection of technology and educational policy.