Tag Archives: participatory

Internet Censorship and New Political Power of the People Using the Web

Shirky (2010) stresses how people can make use of Social Media for democratic action. What happens if such political freedom gained through the Web 2.0 is censored, has been shown in the case of instant messaging being taken down and later the entire mobile Internet being put down by the government for days in the […]

Participatory photography, to which extend is participatory?

I guess we all commonly have heard about a ‘photo voice’, ‘talking picture’ or visual voices’, a technique of participatory photography that puts the camera in the hands of the people that are encouraged to document and share their own reality through photos. Inspired by the Freirean technique of mutual dialogue (presented in my previous […]

Participatory Communication

The discourse of participatory communication gathered momentum in 1970s as dissatisfaction mounted with top- down communication approaches to social change. However although all the participation is communication driven, not all the forms of communication are participatory. In fact participatory communication means working with and mainly by the people, as opposed to working on or working […]

Participatory Video in India

Appropriating ICT, like cameras, is for the people a (new) way for storytelling. With the use of participatory video (PV), they can tell their stories and counter media narratives, which are dominant and induced by the mainstream media and other stakeholders, like corporate companies. Like the example of Lalavadar Green Messages shows. Telling about the social […]