Breaking cultures of silence
Learnings from a participatory community-centred approach to leveraging and researching documentaries for social change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22023501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Conrad-Pérez (0000-0003-3618-7826, American University), Caty Borum (0000-0003-0781-7921, American University), Jacqueline Olive (Tell It Media), Lisa Flick Wilson (Radical Optimist Collective), Vanessa Jackson (0000-0003-1942-4148, Radical Optimist Collective), Shakita Brooks Jones (Radical Optimist Collective) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Alternative & Community Media (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2206-5857 • E-ISSN: 2634-4726 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jacm_00102_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4313174777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article offers new learnings and recommended practices for documentary-centred grassroots engagement and social change research. These learnings were developed through a community engagement effort in 2020 that centred around a documentary film about racial violence and injustice, Always in Season . Shaped by extended dialogues with industry experts, the filmmaker, local community organizations and more than 100 community participants, these learnings should be of interest to researchers, media makers, organizers, activists, and engagement specialists who wish to engage publics in critical social justice conversations that are not possible through traditional top-down, externally driven methods and engagement approaches alone. Organized around an urgent question – ‘How can participatory methods shift how media is employed and researched for social change purposes?’ – this article responds to a recent call for researchers to avoid ‘re-inventing the wheel’ and to align new work with existing knowledge produced in the field of communication for social change and the long-tradition of community engagement work in the field of documentary
Aesthetics · Citizen journalism · Community engagement · Grassroots · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Silence · Social change · Social media · Sociology · Media Influence and Health · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |