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Record W4410313847 · doi:10.32920/ifmj.v5i1-2.2343

Addressing ‘Us’ and ‘Them’

2025· article· en· W4410313847 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueInteractive Film and Media Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicParticipatory Visual Research Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical science

Abstract

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Committed documentary practices created with and for people affected by social problems have a long tradition. Today, digital media cultures seem to offer new opportunities for participation, as well as new documentary forms of expression that can give marginalized positions cultural visibility on a global level, while simultaneously promoting exchange between those concerned. This contribution argues that in engaged interactive documentary projects on the web (i-docs), community experiences and counterpublics that respond to social and cultural exclusion mechanisms are closely linked. To collectively demand one’s participation in the public sphere and dominant culture through ‘doing documentary’ can foster the feeling of being part of a (virtual) community. Emerging ‘we-groups’ with democratic goals articulate marginalized positions in the form of counterpublics and seek to address an outside audience with their counterpublic discourses. However, the shared aesthetic practices and communicative narrative processes that underlie the sense of community are not always conducive to socio-cultural participation. This paper examines the relation between demanding one’s socio-cultural participation and community experiences in committed participatory i-docs. The hypothesis is that group-specific goals are difficult to reconcile with promoting the cultural participation of those affected by social problems. The theoretical framework first discusses the prerequisites for socio-cultural participation, including media-philosophical approaches and theories of democracy. In addition, the contribution clarifies what distinguishes a (virtual) community from community experiences. Then, three committed i-docs that promote a sense of community and try to challenge dominant cultural and societal structures serve as examples in this investigation: Dadaab Stories (2013), Question Bridge: Black Males (2012), The G Word: Transforming Gender Norms, One Story at a Time (2015). The study uses media-aesthetic and content analyses of the i-docs as well as praxeological analyses of their processes conducted based on paratexts and interviews. This approach examines community experiences and identifies the potential for counter-narratives that deconstruct stereotypes and disseminate positions that are culturally almost invisible. The three i-docs show that the self-representation of marginalized participants and sharing their experiences can be useful for a sense of community, but are not always sufficient for challenging dominant images and identity attributions. The contribution argues that the reproduction of stereotypical (self-)images, for example, prevents the promotion of cultural participation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.688
Threshold uncertainty score0.709

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.650
GPT teacher head0.670
Teacher spread0.020 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it