Titlebook: Innovations in Youth Research; Sue Heath,Charlie Walker Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012 comm

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Youth Research in Web 2.0: A Case Study in Blog Analysis,‘Web 2.0’ offer a unique insight into the lives, tastes, preferences and interactions of young people. Social networking sites such as Facebook, for example, are hugely popular and part of everyday life. Recent Facebook statistics state that there are 400 million active users of the website, 50 per

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Public Profiles, Private Parties: Digital Ethnography, Ethics and Research in the Context of Web 2. ethnography shares many of the principles of traditional (offline) ethnography, including an ethnographic commitment to understanding participants’ lives and experiences through observation and active participation (Hine, 2000). One of a number of virtual ethnographic approaches, digital ethnograph

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,Positionality and Difference in Cross-Cultural Youth Research: Being ‘Other’ in the Former Soviet Uountries which had previously been all but closed off to Western academics. Youth research in particular has begun to flourish in the post-socialist period (Walker and Stephenson, 2010), as researchers have been able to conduct ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork with young people whose lives had

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Double Reflexivity: The Politics of Friendship, Fieldwork and Representation within Ethnographic Ster the Ph.D. supervisor and the doctoral student, focused on three thematic issues derived from their separate fieldwork: risk, friendship and integrity. We look across the different research sites and select examples as part of a joint research imaginary where we have identified a commonality of ex

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Conclusion,used this title, as making claims to innovation is inevitably a rather perilous business (Travers, 2009; Taylor and Coffey, 2008). What might be innovative to one person, or within one particular field of study, might well be old hat to another person or within another field of enquiry. For this rea

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Innovations in Youth Research: An Introduction,tually driven reasons for the recent surge in claims to methodological innovation, driven by academic curiosity and by the demands of new research questions, new sources of data and new areas of enquiry.

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,Meaningful Meanderings: Using Mobile Methods to Research Young People’s Everyday Lives,earchers and participants travelled together to and from designated fieldwork sites, journeys that formed part of the regular routines set up to facilitate young people’s access to fortnightly project sessions. Research contexts, encounters and exchanges are explored in the chapter, and the value of

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,The Use of Mental Maps in Youth Research: Some Evidence from Research Exploring Young People’s Awarhe focus on exploring and understanding young people’s relationships with space and place has seen a range of innovative and mobile methods and approaches being employed to complement or replace more traditional approaches to research (such as questionnaires, interviews and focus groups). Many of th

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Multiple Facets of People and Place: Exploring Youth Identity and Aspirations in Madurai, South Indnguage may have posed a challenge to communication, thus making traditional research methods difficult to use. Our research purposely introduced this photography-based method to a set of participants who utilised it to identify the locally situated, place-related issues influencing their aspirations