Activity: Creating a community in Mukurtu
Part 1: Creating community
1. Using your user name and password, to log into the Mukurtu training site: https://mukurtutrain.interdisciplinarylib.ca/MukurtuTraining/
2. Discuss and decide upon the following elements:
- Cultural protocols
- Categories
- Digital heritage item metadata
Photovoice: Community-based research (creating a heritage item)
What is photovoice?
According to the Sage Research Methods Community:
“Photovoice is a powerful qualitative research method that combines photos and accompanying words generated by participants. Developed nearly three decades ago as a participatory research method in public health by Wang & Burris (1994, 1997), it has since evolved for use worldwide, across numerous academic disciplines, and by a variety of practitioners working with communities for change, advocacy efforts, and social justice.
As a participatory research method, each project evolves a bit differently based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to funding, goals of participant/co-researchers, goals of researchers or community project leaders, questions at hand, and local context. A core component of Photovoice is some sort of culminating component focusing on advocacy and/or policy change.
An overarching snapshot of the photovoice implementation process is a series of modified focus groups where participants meet to engage in ethics and safety training around taking photos, discussions of photos taken, shared analysis of photos, and shared planning for an advocacy event. Photovoice has traditionally been implemented in person, in community-based settings, but as with so many other research methods, it can be modified for use both in person or online.”
Sample student project: The Kaniai Photovoice Report
Activity
1. Using the image that you have brought to the workshop, write 75-100 words in answer to the following question:
- “What do you want others to know about the importance of family?”
2. Using the Mukurtu blank worksheet and the digital heritage item metadata guide, create metadata for this digital heritage item.
3. Upload this image and reflection into the Mukurtu training site.
4. Discuss with members of your group. Share with the larger group.
Handouts