What are the theoretical underpinnings of Videovoice?
Videovoice methodology gets its theoretical and practical underpinnings from Paulo Freire’s empowerment education for critical consciousness, community-based participatory research (CBPR), the photovoice method, and Participatory Video. Research into the strengths, limitations, opportunities, and threats of utilizing the videovoice methodology is currently in its beginning stages. To date, there has only been one article published in a peer-reviewed journal on using participatory film techniques in public health practice. This article, titled A Bridge Between Communities: Video-making using principles of community-based participatory research by author Vivian Chavez in 2004. Currently the methodology is being further developed by public health institutions around the Unites States, including the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and the VideoVoice Collective.
