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1	On Making a Difference: How Photography and Narrative Produce the Short-Term Missions Experience Jennings, Joshua Kerby 01 January 2017 (has links) Short-term missions participants encounter difference in purportedly captivating ways. Current research, however, indicates the practice does not lead to long-lasting, positive change. Brian M. Howell (2012) argues the short-term missions experience is confined to the limitations of the short-term missions narrative. People who engage in short-term missions build assumptions, seek experiences, understand difference, and convey meaning, as a result of this narrative. The process of telling and retelling travel stories is integral to the short-term missions experience. Drawing upon literature on tourism, narrative, development, and photography, this study intends to evaluate the inefficacy of short-term missions through the stories which produce and are produced by photography. Through storytelling and photography from 21 short-term missions participants who have served in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, this project deconstructs the short-term missions narrative to understand, what is the relationship between the use of photography and the short-term missions experience? The results indicate a unique relationship between people, photography, and experiences within the framework of short-term missions. Short-Term Missions Photography Narrative Image Haiti Charity-Based Development Caribbean Languages and Societies Communication Technology and New Media Critical and Cultural Studies Journalism Studies Latin American Studies Leadership Studies Leisure Studies Mass Communication Organizational Communication Organization Development Photography Public Relations and Advertising Rhetoric Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Media Sociology of Religion Speech and Rhetorical Studies Tourism

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On Making a Difference: How Photography and Narrative Produce the Short-Term Missions Experience