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Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews

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ID3756604
AuthorsMarisol Clark‐ibáñez (0000-0001-6843-783X, California State University, San Marcos, corresponding author), Marisol Clark-Ibáñez (California State University, San Marcos)
Year2004
Volume47
Issue12
Pages1507-1527
Publication date2004-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764204266236
OpenAlexW2044236449
LanguageEN
Citations received307
References cited31

This article discusses the photo-elicitation interview (PEI), a qualitative methodology, by addressing its fundamentals, providing examples of how to use it, and arguing its benefits and potential challenges. In PEIs, researchers introduce photographs into the interview context. The photographs used in PEIs can originate from the interviewee or the researcher. Researchers can use photographs as a tool to expand on questions and simultaneously, participants can use photographs to provide a unique way to communicate dimensions of their lives. Featured, in detail, are school ethnography and inner-city childhood studies that used PEIs

Cognitive science · Context (archaeology) · Ethnography · Framing (construction) · Geography · Photo elicitation · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · Visual methods · Anthropology · Art Education and Development · Children's Rights and Participation · Engineering · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology

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