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Meaningful meanderings: using mobile methods to research young people’s everyday lives

Meaningful meanderings: using mobile methods to research young people’s everyday lives. Nicola Ross University of Strathclyde Nicola.ross@strath.ac.uk. Content. Overview of the (Extra)ordinary Lives project Mobile methods ‘Guided’ walks Car journey interactions

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Meaningful meanderings: using mobile methods to research young people’s everyday lives

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  1. Meaningful meanderings: using mobile methods to research young people’s everyday lives Nicola Ross University of Strathclyde Nicola.ross@strath.ac.uk

  2. Content • Overview of the (Extra)ordinary Lives project • Mobile methods • ‘Guided’ walks • Car journey interactions • Sharing intimate narratives: the productivity of motion, commotion and distraction

  3. (Extra)ordinary lives: project overview • Longitudinal, participatory research with 8 young people in care • Using visual and mobile methods • Young people develop own multi-media accounts and representations • Researchers conducting an ethnography of this process

  4. Multi-media project sessions and out-of-session contacts • Working collaboratively with new technologies during project sessions • Between session contacts: ‘guided’ journeys, conversations in a range of settings.

  5. Mobile research methods • Mobilities paradigm in social sciences • Mobile Research Methods: • Embodied, multi-sensory research experiences • Place-making practices and placed encounters: a ‘constitutive coingredience’ of people and places (Casey, 2001) • Shared, experiential journeys generating meaningful understandings of everyday lives • Placed and place-making interactions, rooted in young people’s everyday locales

  6. ‘Guided’ walks • Shared, experiential journeys in locales of significance to young people • Conveyed young people’s intimate knowledge of their localities and locally based social relations • Research encounters ‘rooted’ in the everyday, yet opening avenues for memories and imagined futures • Conversations meandered , unhurried sharing of narratives • Rhythm of the walk offered engagements and disengagements, a mass of encounters, diversions and disruptions

  7. Car journey interactions • Regular routine journeys, one-to-one contact time, growing familiarity, strengthening relations between young person and researcher • Young people making audio recordings of in-car interactions capturing journey soundscapes and conversations • Revealed young people’s local geographies as mundane talk of driving/passengering was interspersed with intimate and mundane

  8. Audio extract from car journey interaction taking place as a young person (aged 10) and researcher travel together on one of their regular journeys home from a fieldwork session. Car journey interaction: moving between the mundane and meaningful

  9. Mobile methods and the sharing of intimate narratives • Mobile methods ‘rooted’ in everyday lives, dynamic, open interactions • Space for narratives to be shared was opened up, closed down, diverted, and revisited • Motion, commotion and distraction were productive in the sharing of intimate narratives

  10. Further Information For more information about the (Extra)ordinary Lives research project, see Qualiti, Cardiff School of Social Sciences www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti

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