i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary
- Submitting institution
-
University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 897923
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press
- ISBN
- 9780231181228
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
2
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Rose and Aston co-wrote the Introduction, pp. 1-6; Rose edited Part 1 Co-creation, writing its preface and Chapter 4, pp. 49-65 and conducted the interview (Chapter 3, pp. 38-48); Aston edited Part 3 Horizons, writing the preface and Chapter 15, pp. 222-36.
Research Process
The collection draws on an inter-disciplinary network of researchers (leading artists, industry practitioners and academics) working in the evolving field of interactive documentary developed through the i-Docs Symposia in 2011, 2012, 2014 and, especially, themes from 2016. Aston’s contribution builds on her research on database narrative, immersive media, live performance, interaction design and sensory/visual anthropology. Rose’s contribution is based on research and international public engagements undertaken within the CollabDocs AHRC Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts (2009-2014).
Research Insights
The co-creation section explores the potential of interactive media and networked connectivity to reconfigure the relationship between the triad of media producer, subject and audience at the heart of documentary, showing how documentarists build on participatory art, community media and access TV, in creative collaborations with communities, expert partners and algorithmic systems. Chapter 4 analyses two co-created activist case studies examining how their creative strategies are shaped by an ethical response to community context and support mechanisms that facilitate participants understanding of themselves as a public, with a shared sense of purpose.
The Horizons section expands analysis of interactive documentary by creating interdisciplinary dialogues with cognate areas of enquiry: immersive journalism, media history, sensory anthropology, area/cultural studies and the performative arts. This generates cross-cultural critique, broadens the historical perspective and opens out future directions. Chapter 15 analyses the importance of liveness, the particular sense of time, place and occasion generated, to propose the concept of ‘emplaced interaction’, underlining the importance of incorporating physical co-presence into interactive documentary to promote active citizenship in an increasingly digitally networked world.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
