Digital diaries: new uses of PhotoVoice in participatory research with young people

ABSTRACT

New technology offers extremely novel and useful ways of exploring ‘the everyday’ of young people’s lives and can include videos, live feeds filmed on social media, text messages, email communication, and messaging or headset communication on gaming consoles. The significance of mobile communication in the lives of young people means that digital diaries offers alternate ways of implementing PhotoVoice methods. This viewpoint proposes the ways in which digital diaries are a useful method of collecting data in research with young people and highlights the challenges and ethical concerns that must be considered when using this method.

KEYWORDS:

• Participatory methods
• digital
• photovoice
• qualitative methodology
• everyday life
• young people

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

ORCID

Catherine Rita Volpe http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7500-9937

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Funding

The research carried out was funded by a University of the Sunshine Coast Research Scholarship.