Enabling Polyvocality in Interactive Documentaries through ‘Structural Participation’

TY - GEN

T1 - Enabling Polyvocality in Interactive Documentaries through ‘Structural Participation’

AU - Green, David

AU - Bowen, Simon

AU - Hook, Jonathan David

AU - Wright, Peter

PY - 2017/5/2

Y1 - 2017/5/2

N2 - Recent innovations in online, social and interactive media have led to the emergence of new forms of documentary, such as interactive documentaries (‘i-Docs’), with qualities that lend themselves to more open and inclusive production structures. Still, little is known about the experience of making and/or participating-in these kinds of documentary. Our two-year in-the-wild study engaged a large community-of-interest in the production of an i-Doc to explore the ethically-desirable yet challenging aim of enabling multiple subjects to have agency and control over their representation in a documentary. Our study reveals insights into the experiences of participating in an i-Doc and highlights key sociotechnical challenges. We argue that new sociotechnical infrastructure is needed, that frames both ‘executory’ and ‘structural’ forms of participation as symbiotic elements of a co-design process.

AB - Recent innovations in online, social and interactive media have led to the emergence of new forms of documentary, such as interactive documentaries (‘i-Docs’), with qualities that lend themselves to more open and inclusive production structures. Still, little is known about the experience of making and/or participating-in these kinds of documentary. Our two-year in-the-wild study engaged a large community-of-interest in the production of an i-Doc to explore the ethically-desirable yet challenging aim of enabling multiple subjects to have agency and control over their representation in a documentary. Our study reveals insights into the experiences of participating in an i-Doc and highlights key sociotechnical challenges. We argue that new sociotechnical infrastructure is needed, that frames both ‘executory’ and ‘structural’ forms of participation as symbiotic elements of a co-design process.

KW - Authorship

KW - Co-Design

KW - Documentary

KW - Grassroots

KW - I-Docs

KW - Interactivity

KW - Narrative

KW - Participation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044220384&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025606

DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025606

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-1-4503-4655-9

SP - 6317

EP - 6329

BT - Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017

PB - ACM

T2 - ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017

Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017

ER -