Photovoice and Cellphone Diaries

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Photovoice is a method that lets individual express their perspective through the artistic mean of photography. Considering the prevalence of mobile communication in our daily lives, especially for young people, this can be extrapolated to digital diaries that, beyond photographs, include videos, social media content, and even text messages or email communication. This citizen science approach offers a new perspective on understanding each individual’s experience of their environment.

What are the goals of this method?

This qualitative methodology aims to integrate this prevalence of mobile communication into the participatory context by collecting data that help understand spatial representation. This is particularly relevant for participatory context as a viable method for capturing situated practices such as everyday patterns of social and individual on the study site. It positions the individual in a participatory approach that encourages self-expression by allowing a voice through visual and digital representation.

Typically this method provides insights into individual's spatial representation, use of space and issues of social participation and exclusion. The PhotoVoice and digital diaries collects and it generates:

• individuals', notably residents and workers, thoughts and social constructs;

• collection of personal accounts that might have been difficult to gather with a more conventional method;

• affective connections between people, their environments, and life situations.

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