Pictures are worth a thousand words, so to speak, but is
that a thousand words too many? Should qualitative researchers (like yourself)
feel free to take pictures of social interaction or other behaviors anytime,
anywhere? What limits should an Institutional Review Board place on
researchers’ freedom to take pictures of others for their studies? What if the
pictures include participants who admitted to wrongdoing in interviews or who
were observed committing a crime and these acts were discussed in the research?
What if the picture was in a public park rather than in a private residence?
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