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Incubator Session. Open session of 60 minutes, consisting of two presentations of ten minutes each that describe project, research, or collaboration initiatives in their developing or formative stages, and including at least forty minutes for audience feedback and discussion.

Description of Session (max 300 words)

"Participatory Media": A Digital Project for the Public Participatory Media (PM) is an online project that interactively engages with and presents participatory community media from the 1960s and 1970s. Participatory Media centralizes disparate archives of community media and place them in the larger context of America’s public documentary record. The project brings to light the development of participatory media practices, and the social and cultural history of American communities during this era. We focus on five community archives in the initial phase:

• The Yup’ik village of Gambell, Alaska and the Alaska Center for Documentary Film;
• The Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York City’s Lower East Side and Young Filmmakers Foundation;
• The Appalachian community in eastern Kentucky and Appalshop;
• Incarcerated youth at Otisville Training School in New York City;
• Adults of color training for film and tv production jobs in Chicago.

Along with making accessible this rich archive, we are working to develop ways users can participate through rich, browsable interfaces and intentional applications of crowdsourcing.

At AMIA, we will present on four areas

The five sites and archives represent the diverse set of challenges the project is encountering in developing, building and implementing the Participatory Media project. Challenges include:

• managing, curating and augmenting an archives of moving images
• multilingual collection, rights management and preservation.

Grace Hale : Historicizing PM

Lauren Tilton : Collecting PM

Jeremy Boggs : Designing for Participation

Taylor Arnold : Building for Participation