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Originally Posted by TGS
Well, photo-elicitation is a recognised and respectable research methodology in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies type areas. But I think that the researchers need to provide a bit more information - for example, the contact details of the person supervising their research so that, if anyone is interested in taking part, they can check out their bona fides. It also seems a bit methodologically clumsy to ask people to send photographs before being recruited to the study - what if, for example, 20 people send in photographs. The study only needs 4 participants so what happens to the other 16 sets of photographs?
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I understand pictures for certain things to illustrate the point you are seeking to make but I don't see how someone taking 10 pictures of themselves with a reader helps the research study. It would seem that a better method for this particular study would be a series of carefully crafted questions that the participants answer.