Photo-Elicitation Method Gives Voice and Reactions of Subjects.

Smith, C. Zoe; Woodward, Anne-Marie

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ERIC Number: EJ581389

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Photo-Elicitation Method Gives Voice and Reactions of Subjects.

Smith, C. Zoe; Woodward, Anne-Marie

Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, v53 n4 p31-41 Win 1999

Describes a research assignment (called "photo-elicitation") in a graduate course on the role of photography in society in which students interview people similar to the subjects in the photographs to discover how the photographs affect them. Includes material from one research project interviewing three recovering drug addicts responding to Larry Clark's 1971 photojournalism book on drug addiction. (SR)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Drug Abuse, Higher Education, Journalism Research, Mass Media Effects, Photojournalism, Student Projects, Student Research

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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