Reed Lu 2020

Project: Queer Women’s Nightlife in China – desire and inequality

Methods:  online interview; Photo/Video/Voice Elicitation; social media observation; Geo-mapping

 

Ethic Codes for Photo/Video/Voice Elicitation

 

  1. Before fieldwork, I should let participants know what he/she needs to do in this project. Such as being interviewed and take photos (make short videos) of the places where he/she goes during the night, and what he/she is doing and feeling of his/her night activities. Participants will choose by themselves whether or not and which formant they would like to do. And they will be noticed that they can exit this project any time during the process. It’s totally okay. Their comfortable feelings are the most primary.

 

  1. Before fieldwork, I should let my informants know that th

 

  1. Before any formal interview, I would try to interact with my informants as casual as possible in order to build a smooth and comfortable relationship with them. Also to make my informants relax. I believe starting directly with formal interview might invoke an environment of interrogating my informants that would entail unequal power relationship. I hope participants won’t feel they are those being examined and made to talk.

 

  1. Before fieldwork, it’s me and participants that decide together the frequency and how to send their photo/video to me. They can change this frequency and format during the fieldwork after we discussing again.

 

  1. Before fieldwork, I should let participants know that only me can access their interview content and photos/videos. Considering photos/videos are unsafe in the digital world, we should think together the technologies how to make their photos/videos safe, private or encrypted.

 

  1. After sending photos/videos to me, if participants require to re-edit them and delete the old vision, I should follow their instructions.

 

  1. When fieldwork is finished, I should continue to interact with participants and consider the timing and ways to adjust our relationships according to different participants.