DiD Special #3 - Interactive Documentary. Participation and Politics [English]

Participation in interactive documentary is complex – ranging from
'clicking on the world' to commenting on content, crowd-sourcing
projects or contributing material. Foremost, however, participation
is a concept that cannot be thought of without bearing in mind its
social and political dimension. In a conversation with Kate Nash,
we unpack participation as a concept with both a long history in
documentary theory and loaded with great expectations in emerging
documentary cultures; we fathom the significance of interactive
documentary in the achievement of citizenship, convening publics
and community building; we explore the delicate balance between
process and product in participatory media making; we discuss the
sensitive issue of power relations; and – revisiting paradigmatic
i-docs – we relate theories to actual practices, to finally fathom
the potential of i-docs beyond interactivity as a highly fragile,
volatile but thus the more so experimental and inspirational
phenomenon of our current media culture.