CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering: Diffractive Approaches to Analysing Multimodal Data Material and Creative Methods to Engage Youth in Data Analysis Facilitators: Amina Ally and Dr Kristina KonstantoniThe research project “Cultural Identity and Popular Culture: Cross-Cultural Childhood and New Digital Media Platforms as Sites for Identity Construction” examines the role that popular culture plays in identity formation. Digital and arts-based participatory methodological tools are used to conduct research with Cross-Cultural Kids. Cross-Cultural Kids are defined as “children who grow up living in, or meaningfully interacting with, two or more distinctly different cultural worlds during their first eighteen years of life” (Reken, 2019). The projects research design embraces an improvisational, multimodal and embodied approach to working with children, taking inspiration from sound studies and feminist ethnographic traditions.Data generation occurred from March-September 2024 in Trondheim, Norway with participants aged 12-15. Participants self-identified as having a multicultural background and answered questions about identity using material and digital artifacts. Following this, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted on the topic of cultural identity and their digital practices. Additionally, an arts-based workshop was held to discuss preliminary project findings with participants. Research material generated from this project includes images of physical and digital artifacts, field notes, interview transcripts, recordings of the arts-based workshop and the art-work created, and various other materials produced by participants throughout the research process.This seminar reflects on how creative methodologies in empirical research support new materialist framings of children’s agency (Spyrou, 2018; Nelson, Pacini-Ketchabaw & Nxumalo, 2018; Caputo, 2022). How might tools such as digital animation, collective analysis and HyperRESEARCH support analysis of multimodal data material aligning with a diffractive approach to methodology? What are the challenges and opportunities in employing these methods to engage youth in data analysis?Bio: Amina Ally is a PhD Candidate specialising in childhood studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the critical child and youth studies research group. Her research interests are cultural identity, popular culture and new digital media platforms. She has been a researcher for the project ‘Embodying the Tween: Living Girlhood in Global and Digital Spaces’ at York University’s Institute for Research on Digital Literacies. Her PhD research focuses on popular culture and new digital media platforms as sites for identity construction. Drawing on new materialist and postcolonial perspectives, she examines how children with hybridised identities construct a sense of self, belonging and citizenship in a digitally mediated and globalising world.This will be a hybrid event, held in Charteris Land 5.02, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Edinburgh, and on Zoom.**Zoom login details will be available upon completion of your registration.**Please see our Privacy PolicyFor any enquiries, please contact us at MHSES-RKEI-Events@ed.ac.uk. Tags Children and Young People Research centres, groups and networks Research events Conferences, seminars and lectures May 21 2025 14.00 - 15.00 CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering: Diffractive Approaches to Analysing Multimodal Data Material and Creative Methods to Engage Youth in Data Analysis You are warmly invited to join us for the next CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering, which will take place in Charteris Land 5.02 and on Zoom. Charteris Land 5.02 Moray House School of Education and Sport University of Edinburgh Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AQ Register by 19th May to attend
CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering: Diffractive Approaches to Analysing Multimodal Data Material and Creative Methods to Engage Youth in Data Analysis Facilitators: Amina Ally and Dr Kristina KonstantoniThe research project “Cultural Identity and Popular Culture: Cross-Cultural Childhood and New Digital Media Platforms as Sites for Identity Construction” examines the role that popular culture plays in identity formation. Digital and arts-based participatory methodological tools are used to conduct research with Cross-Cultural Kids. Cross-Cultural Kids are defined as “children who grow up living in, or meaningfully interacting with, two or more distinctly different cultural worlds during their first eighteen years of life” (Reken, 2019). The projects research design embraces an improvisational, multimodal and embodied approach to working with children, taking inspiration from sound studies and feminist ethnographic traditions.Data generation occurred from March-September 2024 in Trondheim, Norway with participants aged 12-15. Participants self-identified as having a multicultural background and answered questions about identity using material and digital artifacts. Following this, in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted on the topic of cultural identity and their digital practices. Additionally, an arts-based workshop was held to discuss preliminary project findings with participants. Research material generated from this project includes images of physical and digital artifacts, field notes, interview transcripts, recordings of the arts-based workshop and the art-work created, and various other materials produced by participants throughout the research process.This seminar reflects on how creative methodologies in empirical research support new materialist framings of children’s agency (Spyrou, 2018; Nelson, Pacini-Ketchabaw & Nxumalo, 2018; Caputo, 2022). How might tools such as digital animation, collective analysis and HyperRESEARCH support analysis of multimodal data material aligning with a diffractive approach to methodology? What are the challenges and opportunities in employing these methods to engage youth in data analysis?Bio: Amina Ally is a PhD Candidate specialising in childhood studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the critical child and youth studies research group. Her research interests are cultural identity, popular culture and new digital media platforms. She has been a researcher for the project ‘Embodying the Tween: Living Girlhood in Global and Digital Spaces’ at York University’s Institute for Research on Digital Literacies. Her PhD research focuses on popular culture and new digital media platforms as sites for identity construction. Drawing on new materialist and postcolonial perspectives, she examines how children with hybridised identities construct a sense of self, belonging and citizenship in a digitally mediated and globalising world.This will be a hybrid event, held in Charteris Land 5.02, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Edinburgh, and on Zoom.**Zoom login details will be available upon completion of your registration.**Please see our Privacy PolicyFor any enquiries, please contact us at MHSES-RKEI-Events@ed.ac.uk. Tags Children and Young People Research centres, groups and networks Research events Conferences, seminars and lectures May 21 2025 14.00 - 15.00 CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering: Diffractive Approaches to Analysing Multimodal Data Material and Creative Methods to Engage Youth in Data Analysis You are warmly invited to join us for the next CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering, which will take place in Charteris Land 5.02 and on Zoom. Charteris Land 5.02 Moray House School of Education and Sport University of Edinburgh Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AQ Register by 19th May to attend
May 21 2025 14.00 - 15.00 CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering: Diffractive Approaches to Analysing Multimodal Data Material and Creative Methods to Engage Youth in Data Analysis You are warmly invited to join us for the next CYP Hub Multimodal Gathering, which will take place in Charteris Land 5.02 and on Zoom.
