Another interesting topic here is the role that participation has in interactive projects, upon doing some “hindsight” preparation reading, I ponder the paradigm of participation in participatory documentaries with regards to my own project, using it as a way of marketing the project, injecting a deeper sense of purpose and creating a tangible sense of connection. The Anglo-Indian community is known for their love of food, congregating at dances and fundraising for those back home who are doing it rough. Why not incorporate these values into a launch? Formulate a Facebook competition on well known active groups and encourage people to submit stories linked with themes/topics that I plan to cover in the interactive piece and create a competition. I could involve a few respected members of the community such as Dr. Gloria Moore from Melbourne who is well studied in the area of Anglo-Indian history and culture and Bridget White Kumar from Mumbai who is an international award-winning cookery book author (who featured on my second podcast) have expressed a desire to keep the community alive and I believe Gloria would be a great influencer to have on board to introduce the event and as a keynote.
Moving back to the lecture presented by this week’s group, I found the History of Participation section immensely interesting and how some of the earliest technologies to be part of the evolution of participation was Kodak and how Kino Glaz (1924) revealed a ‘previously unseen truth’ this could reveal both the roots of modern-day reality TV. Some of the earliest forms of reality television were sporting events and documentaries. Though the formats and styles have changed over time (some of which I recall being discussed in one of the first lectures this semester)…and in all technicality, people who were willing to be on camera to showcase a real-life situation. Arguably, the most important of the purposes served by these participatory documentaries was to drive social change.
1997: Birth of the Camera Phone (2017)
Another interesting topic here is the role that participation has in interactive projects, upon doing some “hindsight” preparation reading, I ponder the paradigm of participation in participatory documentaries with regards to my own project, using it as a way of marketing the project, injecting a deeper sense of purpose and creating a tangible sense of connection. The Anglo-Indian community is known for their love of food, congregating at dances and fundraising for those back home who are doing it rough. Why not incorporate these values into a launch? Formulate a Facebook competition on well known active groups and encourage people to submit stories linked with themes/topics that I plan to cover in the interactive piece and create a competition. I could involve a few respected members of the community such as Dr. Gloria Moore from Melbourne who is well studied in the area of Anglo-Indian history and culture and Bridget White Kumar from Mumbai who is an international award-winning cookery book author (who featured on my second podcast) have expressed a desire to keep the community alive and I believe Gloria would be a great influencer to have on board to introduce the event and as a keynote.
Moving back to the lecture presented by this week’s group, I found the History of Participation section immensely interesting and how some of the earliest technologies to be part of the evolution of participation was Kodak and how Kino Glaz (1924) revealed a ‘previously unseen truth’ this could reveal both the roots of modern-day reality TV. Some of the earliest forms of reality television were sporting events and documentaries. Though the formats and styles have changed over time (some of which I recall being discussed in one of the first lectures this semester)…and in all technicality, people who were willing to be on camera to showcase a real-life situation. Arguably, the most important of the purposes served by these participatory documentaries was to drive social change.
1997: Birth of the Camera Phone (2017) – video available on blog post
What was interesting was the footage or reenactment of how the phone camera came about in 1997 thanks to Phillipe Kahn, a technology inventor for France. It showcases how valuable experimentation is and how an everyday need (being key!) to share an important moment digitally (therefore instantaneously) and some innovation changed the way we communicate forever.
I remember Web 1.0 and unless you were going into a chatroom app, there was no way for a web user to interact with anything on the internet. That being said, now with Web 2.0 we have blogs driving SEO and interactivity on websites, then the idea that almost anyone can be a self-made “expert” and with the right content, social media strategising, Google analytics etc you can track business and sponsorship. It’s a very different world to what it once was.
Reference
1997: Birth of the Camera Phone 2017, streaming video, Conscious Minds, US, viewed 14 April 2018, <https://vimeo.com/221117048>