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ecosystem (Cooren 2015b). In a 2015 conference address entitled ‘In media res’ (In the middle of everything), Francois Cooren asked his audience to consider, in their uses of media, what value am I adding? His answer was that we are ‘passers’, or intermediaries. We are intermediating so that others can ‘acquire more existence’. Any being can be an actor and a passer – what they say, act or do can make a difference in a situation or scene. Cooren (ibid) argued that it is a ‘serious business’ and ‘how the world, in the variety of its incarnations, embodiments and materializations, comes to express itself in interaction – what is passing through or coming across what we say’ is something we have a responsibility for. Reflecting on The living community in these terms, as project lead I have had the ethically weighty role of ‘passer’, intermediating in story worlds. My actions and facilitations interact with stories that already exist, and bring them to a place where they acquire more existence, where other people, and passers, then interact with them. A series of community stories acquiring more existence by my intervention or intermediation is no insignificant thing: ‘A world where things more or less exist or are more or less material is a world where communication always matters’ (Cooren 2015a). My team and I have responsibility for what that existence says in its mediatised form as a digital media artefact. The ways in which we think about our part in co-construction as multiple co-authors, actors, participants and passers is fundamentally important for the process and products. Our involvement, the parts we play and how deeply we think about these, both determines the value of the products of this process, and interacts with the outcomes via multiple audience reception and engagement with the product. The product of the co-creative effort gives the story new form as it makes its way in the media ecosystem. Thus, in facilitating community media content creation, a deeply ethical commitment is implied. RESEARCH PAPER Notes 1 At proposal stage, the research goal was to assess how the community communication environment can be mobilised to better serve community needs through engaging residents, local businesses and community organisations in storytelling networks. A number of subsidiary objectives related to production of media content about community development projects for broadcast and other dissemination, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the development of partnership opportunities 2 Colleagues from Social Practice, Design and Management also had some involvement, arising from their existing research relationships with the seven communities identified as potential subjects for The living community. They were go-betweens, working with their community contacts to develop story ideas, and liaise through me with the series production manager, students and others 3 http://www.unitec.ac.nz/about-us/contact-us/staff-directory/alexander-lee 4 It was not included in the Face TV broadcast series but is available online (Clarke 2015a) 5 http://www.skyeclark.com/ Copyright 2016-2/3. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. All rights reserved. Vol 13, No 2/3 2016 63
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