Description
Providing a unique collection of perspectives on the persistence of documentary as a vital and dynamic media form within a digital world, New Documentary Ecologies traces this form through new opportunities of creating media, new platforms of distribution and new ways for audiences to engage with the real.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses Part I: EXPANDING DOCUMENTARY 1. Documentary Ecosystems: Collaboration and Exploitation; Jon Dovey 2. Ceding the Activist Digital Documentary; Alexandra Juhasz 3. Clicking on the World: Documentary Representation and Interactivity; Kate Nash 4. Interactive Documentary and Affective Ecologies; Adrian Miles 5. Web-Weaving: the Affective Movement of Documentary Imaging; Catherine Summerhayes PART II: PRODUCTION PRACTICES 6. Spinning a Collaborative Web - Documentary Projects in the Digital Arena; Elizabeth Coffman 7. An Interview with Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives Tribeca Film Institute; Kate Nash 8. Strategies of Participation: The Who, What and When of Collaborative Documentaries; Sandra Gaudenzi 9. An interview with Jigar Mehta, Director of Operations Matter; Kate Nash 10. Making (with) the Korsakow System: Database Documentaries as Articulation and Assemblage; Matt Soar 11. The Evolution of Animated Documentary; Annabelle Honess Roe 12. An Interview with Florian Thalhoffer, Media Artist and Documentary Maker; Kate Nash PART III: INTER/ACTION: RETHINKING DOCUMENTARY ENGAGEMENT 13. Digital Diffusion of Delusions: A World Wide Web of Conspiracy Documentaries; Bjørn Sørenssen 14. Shoot, Edit, Share: Cultural Software and User-Generated Documentary Practice; Craig Hight 15. Ethical Challenges for Documentarians in a User-Centric Environment; Patricia Aufderheide
