“I Have Something to Say!” Cellphilming in Participatory Work with Young Children: Learning Together How to Include, Amplify, and Represent Their Voices Ethically

In this chapter, we explore critical issues on what it means to be a parent researcher and the responsibilities of taking up dual roles (advocating for our children, and properly audience our children’s work), along with how being a parent researcher has also led to connecting with other parents/researchers. We examine the complicated questions arising from concerns over visual ethics when working with young children, such as faces or no faces? Do we edit the cellphilm or not? If I do, have I taken away or manipulated the child’s vision and or message? Is there a collaborative way to edit a cellphilm? These issues are explored through a series of engagements with our children and other children who participated in recent cellphilm workshops.