Doing digital children's geographies, imperfectly: methodological reflections on a child-led digital tour in a slum neighbourhood in the Philippines

This chapter offers a reflection on slum-dwelling children’s participation in digitally-mediated fieldwork in the Philippines. It focuses on the role of digital technologies in how communication and digital identities as researchers and participants are negotiated. This chapter discusses how geographical boundaries played both hindrance and catalyst to researcher-participant interactions and unpacks the implications of this experience for digital geographies in terms of the limitations of doing research via digital platforms and how digitally-mediated research enables children to effectively challenge the research process of using digital technologies itself. This chapter offers an invitation to geographers using digitally-mediated methods toward a research agenda on how digital geographies make salient the role of children in digital geographies. I contribute to the broader discussions within the field of digital geographies by offering a reflexive discussion on the unintended consequences of doing digital fieldwork.