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Published on: February 16, 2011
Narrative Mapping: Participant-Generated Visual Methodology for Health Communication Research and Pedagogy
1Department of Communication, Wright State University.
Abstract:
Narrative mapping is a newly emergent form of participant-generated visual methodology. This essay differentiates narrative mapping from other visual methodologies and from other genres of mapping by examining a shared epistemological framework undergirding both the construction of narratives and the crafting of maps. The confluence of these innately human inclinations extends current methodological practices of narrative inquiry, especially in health communication. Narrative maps not only enhance sense-making abilities but they are unique communicative tools through which participants address their lived/ing experience in encounters of care and research. Recognizing both personal and political nature of healthcare, a poststructural feminist commitment further grounds this methodological framework and analysis.
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