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- Title
Researching LGBT+ Youth Intimacies and Social Media: The Strengths and Limitations of Participant-Led Visual Methods.
- Authors
Marston, Kate
- Abstract
This paper draws on data from an exploratory study into the social media engagements of LGBT+ young people aged 16 to 20 years old, in the United Kingdom, and considers how participant-led visual methods generated insights into different modalities of digitally mediated intimacy. It outlines the methodological paradigms dominating current research on LGBT+ young people's digitally mediated practices of intimacy and argues that visual methods have been underemployed to date. The participatory visual methods used in this study, including map-making and digital tours of participant's digital worlds along with visual elicitation interviews, are documented and explored in relation to Berlant's work on intimacy and theories of networked affect. It also reflects upon the ethical implications of re-presenting social media images and troubles interpretive imperatives within qualitative research.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media; INTIMACY (Psychology); LGBTQ+ youth; QUALITATIVE research; TUMBLR (Web resource)
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 3, p278
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077800418806598