I found an article today linked to a website which documents activities parallel to those of the Peer Reporters. The VIA (Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment) Project gave video cameras to adolescents being treated for chronic illnesses, so that they could see and hear about the programme from the participants themselves. Click the blue link that follows to see the site:
VIA Project
The article described the impact of the videos made by VIA participants:
"...the VIA Project, through using video cameras, enabled patients to ‘grind their own social lens’ and produce their own accounts of how their conditions impacted on their lives. The thing that struck me in watching the testimonies (and we can see them online now) is the “you need to see this, I need you to know this” quality that they possessed. This is about playing with the nature of observation itself and who is the observer and who is the observed."
Here is a link to the whole article, which was the introduction to the final workshop of the "Live Sociology" series at the University of Cardiff, UK, December 9, 2006:
Sociological Life
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