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TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling Polyvocality in Interactive Documentaries through Structural Participation
AU - Green, David
AU - Bowen, Simon
AU - Hook, Jonathan
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.
U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025606
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025606
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SP - 6317
EP - 6329
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -