Refracted Violence: interactive digital journeys through stories of civil conflict

折射暴力：通过内战故事进行互动数字之旅

• 批准号: AH/W003961/1
• 负责人: Guy Austin
• 金额: $ 9.96万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW003961%2F1
• 关键词: Refracted; Violence; interactive; digital; journeys

Screening Violence (2018-ongoing) is a multinational transdisciplinary project funded by the AHRC, in which investigators have screened films on political violence to participants in five countries with recent histories of civil conflict (Algeria, Argentina, Colombia, Indonesia, Northern Ireland). We partnered with local production companies in each country to film the debates and discussions that arose from these screenings. We found that showing films from other countries before each discussion prompted participants to see their own experiences in a new context. Through the footage we gathered, the local specificity of these dialogues emerges on screen as every group contemplates their own past, present, and future. Some participants have been highly analytical in their responses, others more emotional. Some conversations have been tense, or confrontational; others more subdued; still others full of hope. In each case, our partners have provided vast amounts of audio-visual material for our archive. They have used a fraction of it to make documentaries. Now, we are processing much more of the raw footage, translating it, captioning it, and editing it into short clips to make an interactive online experience to follow on from Screening Violence. This is particularly crucial in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, stories of which we will include in the footage for Refracted Violence (RV).The RV interactive site will enable ongoing public engagement with multinational experiences of civil conflict (and how the pandemic has impacted violence and conflict). It will be presented in 4 languages. Instead of serving as a static, passive repository for our footage, the site will offer its users multiple modes of sustained negotiation with our archive. Screening Violence has provoked in its participants active critical engagement with political circumstances, as well as with films that represent such circumstances. This project is influenced by the same methodological principles. Site users will have the opportunity to move beyond linear narratives and develop unique non-linear journeys through our material, and to see social imaginaries unfold in the films as they do so.The site also provides interactivity within the film frame itself. In some clips, participants refer to specific historical events and cultural concepts. When these are mentioned, an information symbol appears on screen; clicking it opens a bubble with a brief explanation while the video continues to play. Site users can thus remain on the site and still receive important contextual information, instead of navigating away and disrupting their immersive experience. This follow-on project will also include footage created exclusively for the website: some Screening Violence participants are creating original films for Refracted Violence by recording interviews with themselves or close family members on their smartphones. They reflect on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their experiences of conflict, and on specific themes that emerged in the Screening Violence material. We are also incorporating a short series of interviews with the SV academic investigators, on the nature of conflict imaginaries and their observations on the SV project. The functional ability to pull all the academic interviews together and watch them consecutively will be available, but our intention is to provide academic context and commentary on the site without automatically elevating or prioritising the voices of our investigators above those of the participants.Both of our specialist user groups (NGOs and policymakers) as well as researchers and students will be able to consult this dynamic resource to inform their understanding of experiences of violent conflicts. But so too will the public across the globe-gaining insights into the social realities of life after political conflict, and the often-fragile nature of the peace that prevails in post-conflict circumstances.

筛选暴力（2018年至今）是由AHRC资助的一个跨国跨学科项目，其中调查人员向最近发生内战的五个国家（阿尔及利亚，阿根廷，哥伦比亚，印度尼西亚，北方爱尔兰）的参与者放映了关于政治暴力的电影。我们与每个国家的当地制作公司合作，拍摄这些放映引起的辩论和讨论。我们发现，在每次讨论之前播放其他国家的电影，会促使参与者在新的背景下看待自己的经历。通过我们收集的镜头，这些对话的地方特色出现在屏幕上，因为每个群体都在思考自己的过去，现在和未来。一些参与者在他们的回答中高度分析，其他人则更加情绪化。有些对话是紧张的，或者是对抗性的;有些则比较温和;还有一些则充满希望。在每一个案例中，我们的合作伙伴都为我们的档案提供了大量的视听材料。他们用其中的一小部分制作纪录片。现在，我们正在处理更多的原始镜头，翻译它，字幕，并编辑成短片，使互动的在线体验，以遵循从筛选暴力。这在新冠肺炎大流行的背景下尤为重要，我们将在“折射暴力”（RV）的镜头中加入相关故事。RV互动网站将使公众能够持续参与多国国内冲突的经历（以及大流行如何影响暴力和冲突）。它将以4种语言呈现。该网站将为用户提供与我们的档案馆进行持续协商的多种模式，而不是作为我们镜头的静态被动存储库。放映暴力促使参与者积极批判地参与政治环境以及代表这种环境的电影。这个项目受到同样的方法论原则的影响。网站用户将有机会超越线性叙事，并通过我们的材料开发独特的非线性旅程，并看到他们这样做的电影中展开的社会事件。该网站还提供了电影框架本身的互动性。在一些片段中，参与者提到特定的历史事件和文化概念。当提到这些时，屏幕上会出现一个信息符号;点击它会打开一个带有简短解释的气泡，同时视频继续播放。因此，网站用户可以留在网站上，仍然可以接收重要的上下文信息，而不是导航离开并破坏他们的沉浸式体验。这一后续项目还将包括专门为该网站制作的镜头：一些“筛查暴力”的参与者正在通过智能手机记录对自己或亲密家庭成员的采访，为"被折射的暴力“制作原创电影。他们反思了新冠肺炎大流行对他们冲突经历的影响，以及《筛查暴力》材料中出现的具体主题。我们还将与SV学术调查人员进行一系列简短的访谈，讨论冲突的性质及其对SV项目的观察。将所有的学术面试放在一起并连续观看的功能将是可用的，但我们的目的是在网站上提供学术背景和评论，而不会自动将我们的调查人员的声音提升或优先于参与者的声音。（非政府组织和决策者）以及研究人员和学生将能够查阅这一动态资源，以了解他们对暴力冲突经历的理解。但是，全球的公众也将获得对政治冲突后的社会现实生活的洞察力，以及在冲突后环境中普遍存在的和平往往是脆弱的。