Thriving Across the Lifespan and Around the Globe: Day in the Life Visual Research Approach

Author(s): Nora Didkowsky* and Cindy Lau

DOI: 10.2174/9781681088808121010007

Behind the Scene: Reflections on Researchers' Experiences While Capturing Audio-Visual Data during a Day in the Life

Pp: 27-37 (11)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

Abstract

In this chapter, we reflect on the making of a Day in the Life (DITL), that is, the audio-visual methodologies used to examine resilience processes for youth in transition in diverse contexts (Cameron, Theron, Tapanya, Li, Lau, Liebenberg & Ungar, 2013). We explore the experience of capturing visual data in quasi-ecological settings from the researcher's perspective. We give an account of how our training as DITL researchers, the equipment we utilized, the social and physical environments in which the filming occurred, decisions about sound, lighting and compositionality, unanticipated ethical quandaries in the field, and participants' reactions to the camera, all played essential roles in the visual data co-created with participants.

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