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Participatory video is an innovative research method for empowering minority individuals, groups, or communities by giving them access to a camera firsthand to film themselves, their lives, or issues that matter to them and for communicating their voice with the wider public. This articles critically inquires into how and whether participatory video researchers adequately share power with minority participants throughout collaborative video-making processes by respectfully representing their voice. In doing so, this paper uses as a case study the author’s own firsthand experiment with collaboratively making a short video with a group of young migrants with insufficient Japanese language abilities. The video is about their efforts to adapt to Japanese society despite differences in cultures and customs. The author draws on an alternative approach to finding new voices in the contexts of storyboarding, rehearsing, shooting, and editing. The paper sheds some light on what the new voices look, sound, smell, and feel like.

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This page is a summary of: Pushing the Limits of Participatory Video: Exploring Transgressive Voices through Researcher-Participant Minor Video-Making as a Non-Representational Practice, Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, August 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/23644583-bja10056.
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