INTO THE WILD? FILM STUDIES AND TRANSITIONS INTO „OPENNESS“ (PART 3) — Further Routes of Film Studies and Transitions into “Openness” – Dissemination, Open Data, Citizen Research and Participation – Open Media Studies

This is Part 3 of a three-part blog entry that recapitulates the conceptual background as well as the six presentations and respective discussions of the online workshop “Into the Wild? Film Studies and Transitions into ‘Openness’”; a workshop which was held as a collaboration between the Center for Advanced Film Studies, Cinepoetics, and the Scholarly Interest Group Open Media Studies in early February 2021. Here, we give an account on current further routes into openness. Matthias Grotkopp’s contribution critically focussed on open data and data management when publishing annotation data of large audiovisual corpora. The presentation by Anna Luise Kiss on film studies as a predestined field for citizen research and participatory research highlights that openness for and interaction with the public can substantially enrich academic research and vice versa. (For further information on citizen research see Anna Luise Kiss’ three-part OMS blog entry Citizen Science.) Both Grotkopp and Kiss drew from their own experience with the methods they discussed, while also contextualizing them within the broader field of open research. While Grotkopp’s contribution once again emphasized the impact of the digital for film and media studies’ transitions into ‘openness’, Kiss’ contribution highlighted that ‘openness’ is much more than a (putative) logical consequence of the digital. The report closes with notes on the final open discussion between all workshop participants.