Urban Youth and Photovoice by Delgado Melvin;

Author:Delgado, Melvin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERATIONS

The use of a framework, or guide, to analyze results provides youth photovoice researchers with a “tool” that they can use and follow through all of the stages usually associated with data analysis, visual-based or otherwise. A number of frameworks do exist that have shown positive results because of their ease of use and their ability to highlight key themes and considerations that need to be taken. Rose (2012), for example, recommends a four-step process for content analysis: (1) finding your images; (2) devising your categories for coding; (3) coding the images; and (4) analyzing the results.

Metropolitan Area Planning Council (n.d.), in turn, offered a very popular five-step guide (SHOWeD) that is illustrative of how youth participants can be guided in articulating their thoughts and reactions concerning the photographs that were taken:

S: What do you See here?

H: What’s really Happening here?

O: How does this relate to Our lives?

We: Why does this situation Exist?

D: What can we Do about it?

Each of these questions guides participants in a process that is highly ambiguous with no easy “right” and “wrong” answers. Participant ability to tolerate ambiguity is one of the factors that were identified as critical in the selection process. This framework brings into discussion the element of social action, which is essential in urban youth photovoice.

Five aspects of data analysis will be addressed in this section because of their particular significance in youth photovoice: (A) coding of data/group process, (B) relevance and facilitating ease of use, (C) identification of crosscutting themes; (D) contextualization (telling the story); and (E) determination of the social change effort. The reader will see the interrelationship between these five aspects, and how one sets the stage for the following. Each of these considerations and dimensions to photovoice brings inherent rewards and challenges. An urban youth focus adds a geographical context and age factor into these rewards and challenges.

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