ABSTRACT
In the recent years, researchers have shown growing interest in making use of new creative methods (Gauntlett 2007) in social research. According to Buckingham (2009, 633) such an interest in creative approaches and hence, “a broader move towards ‘participatory’ research methods” has been apparent across a wide range of disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, social policy, education and health), and is especially popular while doing research involving children and young people. Creative approaches have also been actively used in media studies, as numerous researchers have asked children and young people to engage in some creative projects either by making drawings (Lealand and Zanker 2006), shooting videos (Gauntlett 1997), making scrapbooks that combine images and texts (Bragg and Buckingham 2008) or creating collages (Awan 2007) so as to “generate insights which would most likely not have emerged through directed conversation” (Gauntlett 2011, 4). Several researchers (e.g., Perkel and Yardi 2006) have also made use of photo or video elicitation in which creative (visual) material produced either by the participants or the researcher has been used as a basis for carrying out interviews.
