Title

Investigating the Self: Youth Expression With Video Surveillance Technology

Abstract

The author utilized a screenplay as performance ethnography to add depth and an alternative means of conveying the stories of young Black Caribbean Franco males living in the Diaspora. The dialogue allowed the audience to witness the conflicting relationship that the youth experienced with technology (surveillance in particular) as both a source of oppression and potential source of freedom. The author posited that this freedom would lead to forgiveness (rooted Arendt’s work on vita activa) and ultimately love and conscientization (found in Freire’s work Pedagogy of the Oppressed) but can only emerge when given the space to be expressed through art, music, movement, or any nonwritten communication that did not further silence the participants.

Department(s)

Reading, Foundations and Technology

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416637624

Keywords

care of the self, critical pedagogy, forgiveness, love (care)/respect, new media technology, performance ethnography, power/control, young Black males

Publication Date

10-1-2016

Journal Title

Qualitative Inquiry

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