How familiar were you with the idea of zines before this talk? If you are new to zines - what do you think zine making offers beyond traditional research methods? If you have used zines in your own research practice - in what way have you done this and what did you learn from using zine making?
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Also I find a follow-up reflective interview is very useful too! I came across this in@Mindy Ptolomey 's work, thank you Mindy! After the workshop, i asked people permission to distribute the zines to everyone. Afterwards, i arranged a ZineSwap session as a focus group, where people came together to shared their thought process and explained their zines to others (I found this really useful to minimise the bias instead of me trying to interprete the data later on).
The participants then felt that by looking at other's zines + the discussion, they found they got to know each other on a deeper personal level. And with all the sharing and similar stories, the participants shared that they empathised with other's sharing and a sense of community.
Loving this conversation - just to let you know that Prompt 3 is up now in the main forum.
I had never come across zine-making as method when I came up with the idea to use zines in my PhD research. I had been to a zine fair and bought a bunch of zines and had a bit of an 'aha!' moment thinking how much zines aligned to my research philosophy and questions. I crafted the method from my own creative facilitation practice, a dissertation by Danielle Cowley that used collaging with disabled young women, and creative and visual methods scholarship especially the work of Dawn Mannay, Helen Lomax, and Helen Kara. I later found a couple of articles and a PhD by Jade French that include zine-making as method but there were still a lot of methodological details not included in these. I found Lilith Cooper's blog really helpful too. https://lilithjoycecooper.com
Yes, me too! That sounds interesting! I have read some papers on that too. I think with zine, people can actually use the photos they took and sticked it on the zines as a collage to tell their stories too. One of my participants did that, accompanied with his handwriting to describe the photos and his thoughts on it, which i found it really nice, it's like his own diary 😊
So I don't know much about zines, my PAR is centred on photography. Please can you outline what you think are the key benefits that zines offer that photography may not? I can see that there may be a few in terms of creative process, freedom of expression...