Photo Voice

This assignment was to go around UConn and take ten pictures of things that I either loved or hated about UConn. For this assignments, my classmates and I used photo voice as the research method. Overall, I enjoyed this method of research, though it did have its limitations. Some of the limitations of the method are that there are only so much one can capture with a picture. Motion was not easy to capture so that point could not always come across as strong as it could as with other methods. However, the method does give a different viewpoint than other research methods. Seeing something and reading about something are two completely different things, so they evoke different emotions when they are done. Photo voice allows to demonstrate someone’s life in a different way than writing about it does. I would use photo voice again, but it would have to depend on the research subject to see if photo voice would be the best way to conduct research.
Many of the points that came up during the presentations were the same across the board. The students at UConn seem to love and …show more content…
Some of these topics were cost of education, cost of books, stress, and picking classes. I have a problem with all of these topics and how they are handled at UConn, so I wondered why I did not include any of these in my presentation. After reflecting I realized that what point in the semester the project is done would change what is in the presentations. If it was done in the beginning of the semester I think more people would have put the price of education and the cost of books because that was what was effecting them at that time. If it was done during finals week, there would have been a lot more talk about the stress of being in college. The presentation for each person would change depending on what point of the semester we are