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Voice, authenticity and ethical challenges: the participatory dissemination of youth-generated visual data over social media Kyung-Hwa Yang (25156798) KYUNG-HWA YANG (25156801) Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Cancer Science Policy Mental Health remaking visual data generated visual data participatory video making thereby making dissemination research project carried expressions may contribute young people ’ exploring visual ethics offering young participants using social media young people visual ethics social media participatory dissemination underserved community theoretical frameworks south africa related issues methodological focus knowledge gap growing interest engaging children educational intervention discussion draws article contributes aids pandemic <p>Using the theoretical frameworks of childhood studies and visual ethics, this article explores ethical ways of engaging children and young people in disseminating self-generated visual data (‘participatory dissemination’) over social media. The discussion draws on a research project carried out with a group of young people in an underserved community in South Africa. The project was an educational intervention that aimed to enable the participants to bring out their experiences with the HIV and AIDS pandemic in South Africa and to reflect on related issues through participatory video making. The methodological focus was on exploring visual ethics in the context of participatory dissemination. Despite a growing interest in social media, few studies have been conducted in relation to ethics in using social media as an outlet to disseminate visual data created by young people. This article contributes to addressing this knowledge gap. It is argued that (1) the process of remaking visual data can enhance the ethics of dissemination by offering young participants an opportunity to reflect on self-representation more carefully and (2) the verbal contextualisation of participant-generated visual data can contribute to a further clarification of young people’s ideas, thereby making dissemination more ethical. I am cautious, however, to overstate the significance of disseminating young people’s verbal and visual expressions without researchers’ discretion because such expressions may contribute to stigmatising the young people.</p> 2026-10-01T13:55:58Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34046155.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Voice_authenticity_and_ethical_challenges_the_participatory_dissemination_of_youth-generated_visual_data_over_social_media/34046155 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0