ABSTRACT

Dramatically increased accessibility to recording technologies and participatory nature of today’s information environment certainly have emancipatory potentials. Perhaps, we live in an era that Dziga Vertov once dreamed of: mass authorship of filmmaking reveals the injustice and inequality of the world. However, in reality, we are witnessing political turmoil characterized by partisan division and a surge of populism. Against such a backdrop, we need to rethink the ways to unleash the critical potential of participatory media and reenvision how it can facilitate people’s civic engagements for social transformation. By positing that very act of defining participation as a political struggle, this paper thematically reviews literature and examine how diverse forms of participation manifests through different designs of participatory video projects. Along the journey, I interrogate the premises of participatory video, explore the diversity of the approach, and identify the challenges and dilemmas for making participatory video ‘more participatory.’

摘要

当今信息环境的记录技术的可及性和参与性的显着增加当然具有解放潜力。或许，我们生活在一个 Dziga Vertov 曾经梦想的时代：电影制作的大量创作揭示了世界的不公正和不平等。然而，在现实中，我们正在目睹以党派分裂和民粹主义高涨为特征的政治动荡。在这样的背景下，我们需要重新思考如何释放参与式媒体的批判潜力，并重新设想它如何促进人们为社会转型而参与的公民参与。通过将参与定义为政治斗争的这一行为，本文以主题方式回顾了文献，并研究了参与式视频项目的不同设计如何体现不同的参与形式。