January 15, 2024
18h (6pm CET)
Webinar: Participatory action research and media literacy: toward engaged, accountable, and collaborative knowledge production with marginalized communities
A series of webinars is being organized to promote the publication of "Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook", edited by Pierre Fastrez and Normand Landry published by Routledge. Other webinar sessions are scheduled for February 5 and March 4, 2024.
Webinar: Participatory action research and media literacy: toward engaged, accountable, and collaborative knowledge production with marginalized communities
On Monday, January 15, 2024, speakers Koen Leurs, Cigdem Bozdag, Annamária Neag and Sanne Sprenger will discuss their chapter, 'Participatory action research and media literacy: toward engaged, accountable, and collaborative knowledge production with marginalized communities'.
About the Book Chapter: Focusing on research methodologies, this chapter addresses the potential and challenges of participatory action research (PAR) for working with marginalized youth communities in the context of media education and media literacy research. PAR may offer new opportunities to bridge the perspectives of academics, practitioners, and learners. Rather than conducting research on a community, it is an approach to research with communities. Participatory action research enables researchers to ensure that their academic objectives are aligned with the interests of the participants. The chapter is structured in three sections. In the first, we examine PAR objectives and detail where PAR originated. Second, we discuss the type of research questions PAR approaches can cover in relation to critical media literacy theories, introduce methodological techniques, and outline the challenges. Third, we present five principles – related to power relations, stakeholders, ethics, process, and reflection – for carrying out PAR. In general, PAR may contribute to larger changes currently observable in academia. Universities are increasingly seeking to rebrand the academic landscape, not as an ivory tower removed from society but as a publicly engaged institution. PAR provides an approach, methodology, and social justice-based ethics to support this broader shift toward engaged, community-based research.
This webinar is part of the ‘Inequalities and Media Education’ (IME) webinar series that explores the relationship between media and inequalities as well as justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the (digital) media literacy and education space.
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