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This article has two aims: ( i) to examine a series of ethical challenges that arose during the course of a visual ethnography which sought to understand the ways in which young people use popular visual material culture in their everyday lives; and ( ii) to look critically at 'reciprocity' and 'self-reflexivity' as two commonly cited strategies for supporting ethical ethnographic youth research. Using a self-reflexive style throughout, the author draws on Amit (2000) to underline a tension embedded in an assumed separation between the 'field' and 'real' life—or between the professional and the personal. It is argued that visual ethnography was the handmaiden to several ethical dilemmas that, though powerful, self-reflexivity and reciprocity failed to ameliorate. Furthermore, it is also argued that an enhancement of these strategies is essential for future ethical visual ethnographic youth research. Two possible ways forward, including arts-based research and 'pedagogic visual ethnography', are offered.

To better understand how young Alaska Native (Inupiaq) people are creatively responding to the tensions of growing up in a world markedly different from that of their parents and grandparents, the pilot study examined youth-produced digital stories as representations of their everyday lives, values, and identities. Two hundred and seventy-one youth–produced digital stories were examined and assigned descriptive attributes; of these, 31 stories were selected and subjected to a more rigorous coding and a thematic analysis. Findings fall into three main categories: self-representation, sites of achievement, and relationships. Participants' digital stories overwhelmingly depicted positive self-images that included both codified cultural values and pop cultural images to construct novel forms of cultural identity. The gendered depictions of achievement signal a need for more varied, valued, and accessible avenues for success for boys. Lastly, relationships were prominent in the stories, but there was an absence of young adult role models, particularly men, in the stories.