Co-creation and learning: an assessment of the pedagogical proposals in collaborative interactive non-fiction
Article Sidebar
243)
Main Article Content
Authors
Abstract
291
Audiovisual co-creation has always had a pedagogical nature, which has been maintained in its adaptation to digital communication, although it is applied in different ways. This study analyses the pedagogical proposals in collaborative interactive non-fiction in the digital environment, and compares them with previous projects of participatory practices. As case studies we selected five interactive audiovisual projects that stand out for their educational intent and their preparation of teaching resources, and analyzed their pedagogical proposals. First, we looked at pedagogy in pre-digital or analogical collaborative creation, which was used to develop an original analytical table. We used this table to study the five collaborative projects through three identified categories. The results show that these categories continue in initiatives today, although the findings show a shift in the pedagogy about audiovisuals, particularly concerning the technical aspects, as well as a weakening of the connection between learning and participation in the collective production. Finally, we can highlight that combining educational practices with collaborative production on the Internet is important to increase citizen participation and give a social perspective to this audiovisual modality.
Keywords
References
Alberich-Pascual, J. & Gómez-Pérez, F. (2016). Transmedia explorations in contemporary Ibero-American collaborative film-making. Artnodes, 18, 28-36. https://www.doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i18.3054
Baumann, S. E., Lhaki, P. & Burke, J. G. (2020). Collaborative Filmmaking: A Participatory, Visual Research Method. Qualitative Health Research, 1-17. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320941826
Benjamin-Thomas, T. E., Laliberte Rudman, D., Gunaseelan, J., Abraham, V. J., Cameron, D., McGrath, C. & Vinoth Kumar, S. P. (2019). A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research. Methodological Innovations, 1-14. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/2059799119890795
Braden, S. & Huong, T. (1998). Video for development. A Casebook from Vietnam. Oxford: Oxfam Press.
Carpentier, N. (2011). Media and Participation. A site of ideological-democratic struggle. Bristol: Intellect.
Cooke, P., Dennison, S. & Gould, W. (2018). The Voicing Hidden Histories project: participatory video in development, soft power and film language. Media Practice and Education, 19(3), 270-282. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2018.1511360
Dovey, J. (2014). Documentary Ecologies: Collaboration and Exploitation. In K. Nash, C. Hight & C. Summerhayes (Eds.), New Documentary Ecologies. Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses (pp. 11-33). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Bloomsbury.
Fuchs, C. (2014). Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: SAGE.
Gaudenzi, S. (2014). Strategies of Participation: The Who, What and When of Collaborative Documentaries. In K. Nash, C. Hight & C. Summerhayes (Eds.), New Documentary Ecologies. Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses (pp. 129-148). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gaudenzi, S., Kermanchi, J. & Wiehl, A. (2021). Co-creation as im/mediate/d caring and sharing in times of crises: Reflections on collaborative interactive documentary as an agile response to community needs. NECSUS. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3q77DaQ
Gifreu-Castells, A. & Moreno, V. (2014). Educational Multimedia Applied to the Interactive Nonfiction Area. Using Interactive Documentary as a Model for Learning. In 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (ed IATED), Barcelona, 7-9 July, pp. 1306-1315.
Gumucio Dagron, A. (2001). Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation.
Jenkins, H. & Carpentier, N. (2013). Theorizing participatory intensities: A conversation about participation and politics. Convergence, 19(3), 265-286. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/1354856513482090
Kennely, J. (2018). Envisioning Democracy: Participatory Filmmaking with Homeless Youth. Canadian Review of Sociology, 55(2), 190-210.
Lunch, N. & Lunch, C. (2006). Insights into Participatory Video. A Handbook for the Field. Oxford: InsightShare.
Manuel, J. & Vigar, G. (2021). Enhancing citizen engagement in planning through participatory film-making. EPB: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(6), 1558-1573. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/2399808320936280
Martínez Luna, S. & Carrión Candel, E. (2019). Participatory video and visual literacy: Challenges and opportunities for social and educational change. Obra Digital, 17, 77-91. https://www.doi.org/10.25029/od.2019.242.17
Miller, E. & Allor, M. (2016). Choreographies of collaboration: social engagement in interactive documentaries. Studies in Documentary Film, 10(1), 53-70. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2016.1171686
Miller, E. (2018). The Shore Line as Polyphony in Practice: A Case Study. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 15, 113-123. https://www.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.15.08
Mirizio, A. (2017). El anacronismo visual en el cine militante de Helena Lumbreras. Notas a propósito de la influencia de Pasolini y Zavattini. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 18(4), 425-441. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2017.1380156
Montero Sánchez, D. (2020). Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube. Media, Culture & Society, 1-15. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/0163443720948017
Nash, K. (2014). What is interactivity for? The social dimension of web-documentary participation. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 28(3), 383-395. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2014.893995
Nash, K. (2021). Interactive Documentary. Theory and Debate. New York: Routledge.
Pérez, M. A. & Delgado, A. (2012). De la competencia digital y audiovisual a la competencia mediática: dimensiones e indicadores. Comunicar, 39(20), 25-34. https://www.doi.org/10.3916/C39-2012-02-02
Pires, F., Masanet, M-J. & Scolari, C. A. (2019). What are teens doing with YouTube? Practices, uses and metaphors of the most popular audio-visual platform. Information, Communication & Society, 24(9), 1175-1191. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1672766
Roberts, T. & Lunch, C. (2015). Participatory Video. In R. Mansell & P. H. Ang (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society. London: John Wiley & Sons.
Roberts, T. & Muñiz, S. (2020). Fifty Years of Practice and Innovation Participatory Video (PV). In J. Servaes (Ed.), Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change (pp. 1195-1211). Singapore: Springer.
Rogers, M. (2017). Participatory Filmmaking Pedagogies in Schools: Tensions Between Critical Representation and Perpetuating Gendered and Heterosexist Discourses. Studies in Social Justice, 11(2), 195-220.
Rose, M. (2017). Not media about, but media with: co-creation for activism. In J. Aston, S. Gaudenzi & M. Rose (Eds.), I-docs. The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary (pp. 49-66). New York: Columbia University Press.
Scolari, C. A. (2016). Estrategias de aprendizaje informal y competencias mediáticas en la nueva ecología de la comunicación. Revista TELOS, 1-9.
Scolari, C. A. (2019). Beyond the myth of the “digital native”. Adolescents, collaborative cultures and transmedia skills. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 14(3-04), 164-174. https://www.doi.org/10.18261/issn.1891-943x-2019-03-04-06
Shaw, J. & Robertson, C. (1997). Participatory Video. A practical guide to using creatively in group development work. London: Routledge.
Varghese, D., Olivier, P., Bartindale, T. & Baillie Smith, M. (2020). Towards Participatory Video 2.0. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Association for Computing Machinery), New York, 25-30 April, pp. 1-13. https://www.doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376694
Vezne, R. (2020). Participatory video: A non-formal education tool for adult educators. World Journal of Educational Technology: Current Issues, 12(4), 231-247. https://www.doi.org/10.18844/wjet.v12i4.5145
Villaplana-Ruiz, V. (2015). Tendencias discursivas: cine colaborativo, comunicación social y prácticas de participación en Internet. adComunica, 12, 109-126. https://www.doi.org/10.6035/2174-0992.2016.12.8
Walker, G. & Arrighi, J. (2013). Participatory Video as a Catalyst for Informal Learning and Expression: A Review of a PV Training in Uganda, 2012. LEARNing Landscapes, 6(2), 409-423.
Waugh, T., Brendan Baker, M. & Winton, E. (2010). Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada. Québec: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
White, S. A. (2003). Participatory video: A process that transforms the self and the other. In S. A. White (Ed.), Participatory video: Images that transform and empower (pp. 63-101). New Delhi: SAGE.
Yang, K-H. (2016). Participatory Video in Adult Education. Cultivating Participatory Culture in Communities. Singapore: Springer.
Yin, R. K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications. Design and Methods. Los Angeles: SAGE.
Zemits, B., Maypilama, L., Wild, K., Mitchell, A. & Rumbold, A. (2014). Moving Beyond ‘Health Education’: Participatory Filmmaking for Cross-Cultural Health Communication. Health Communication, 30, 1213-1222. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2014.924792
Details
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
RIGHTS TRANSFER
By submitting the article for evaluation and subsequent publication in Communication & Society, the AUTHOR exclusively assigns the rights of public communication, reproduction, distribution and sale for commercial exploitation to the University of Navarra through its Publications Service, for the maximum legal term in force -the entire life of the author and seventy years after his death or declaration of death-, in any country, and in any of the current and future edition modalities, both in print and electronic versions.
In the event that the article is not accepted for publication , this transfer of rights lapses with the communication of the refusal to the AUTHOR.
The AUTHOR affirms that the article is unpublished, that it has not been sent simultaneously to another publication medium and that the rights have not been transferred exclusively previously. He is responsible to the University of Navarra through its Publications Service for the authorship and originality of his work, as well as for all pecuniary charges that may arise for the University of Navarra through its Publications Service, in favor of third parties due to actions, claims or conflicts arising from the breach of obligations by the AUTHOR.
