Interactive Documentary
They say we have choice. It’s a chance, not choice. You put your kid in a lottery and you have a chance to get into a school, and you don’t even have a neighborhood school to fall back on. ~Parent Advocate, Journey for Justice
As an interactive web-documentary, Public Education Project: Participatory Democracy in Times of Privatization, is a web-based ethnographic film project that integrates content—text, images, sounds, graphics, film, and a map—in a digital format. Because of the fluidity of the Internet and the SCALAR platform, you (the viewer-reader) can navigate as you wish. The filmwork—as a collection of short films (instead of a feature-length movie)—allows you to view given the time you want to devote to the project. The films are embedded in text and available in the Shorts Collection. The text offers context, substance, theory and research that you can read. As the viewer-reader, you can move through this web-documentary by creating your own path, determining your pace, and returning as you desire. Because this is an ongoing project started in 2012, new pages and shorts appear regularly.
See below for the basic structure of this web-documentary with links to pages of the main sections.
Parrhesiazestthai is the activity of telling dangerous truths. Films for the People tells multimedia stories about everyday people and their acts of truth-telling from within systems of marginalization.
Basic Structure
