Art as a Tool to Read Social Science Data

Case Study—Teen Sexting Meets Jane Austen, Kara Walker, and Ryan Trecartin

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21206321
AutoresJudith Davidson, Shanna Rose Thompson (0000-0003-2550-577X), Andrew Harris (0000-0003-2927-8818)
Ano2014
Volume7
Fascículo2
Páginas184-201
Data de publicação2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/irqr.2014.7.2.184
OpenAlexW2205962370
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas13

This paper examines the ways arts can serve as a tool to nourish richer and more thoughtful qualitative research interpretation. Using a study of youth views of sexting as the case example, the authors explore the ways encounters with the arts—specifically, literature (Jane Austen), visual art (Kara Walker), and video (Ryan Trecartin)—in interaction with the reading of social science data led one member of a multidisciplinary team to develop new critical questions and embodied awareness of youth views on the issue of sexting. The authors claim art can serve as a catalyst for deeper understanding of social science questions if we allow ourselves the time and circumstances for such inquiry. In today's world, where research teams are increasingly interdisciplinary, focused on a similar problem but highly diverse in the theory and techniques the members possess, art may be a means of developing new shared ways of approaching and experiencing a problem

Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Multidisciplinary approach · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology