ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses first on the author's analytic choices, from the use of design-based research methods to the author's decisions to analyze particular sets of data with particular tools. It looks at the pitfalls and benefits of somewhat fluid data collection and analysis methods. The chapter provides the data collection methods on design-based research models to conceive a continuous cycle of video making and data collection. The children and teachers at Esperanza evidenced what Brayboy (2006), writing about Indigenous peoples' current contexts, calls survivance, which combines survival and resilience in an ongoing 'adaptation and strategic accommodation in order to survive and develop the processes that contribute to community growth'. One of the pressing concerns related to child and youth digital media production is around digital ethics. Awareness of the political economy of communications is vital when working with children. The chapter examines the normative models of digital culture that people espoused and into which they socialized children at Esperanza.
