Encountering the World with I-Docs

Interactive Documentary as a Research Method
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7416-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Interactive documentaries, or i-docs, are web based, multimedia documentaries that immerse audiences through dynamic, interactive platforms. This book unlocks the value of i-docs as a creative research method, providing an engaging guide on how to use i-docs to examine and communicate research subjects.

With examples, conceptual discussion, and practical advice, the book explores how i-docs can illuminate topics including temporalities, power and space, affect and feeling, freedom, and epistemic justice. The book addresses i-docs as a digital form but also shows that even just planning an i-doc on paper can open up new analytical perspectives.

Key features of the book include:

- An easy to use template for planning your own i-doc;

- Advice on how researchers can ‘think with i-docs’ without even producing one;

- Discussion of methodological work with i-docs including participatory i-doc making;

Insights into a range of examples of commercial, activist and research i-docs from around the world.

This book is a valuable resource for scholars, students, community researchers, creatives and activists who want to enlist and ignite the possibilities of i-docs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Ella

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing I-Docs as Method

2. Temporal Architecture

3. Spatial Infrastructure

4. Aesthetics

5. Interactivity

6. Co-creation and Multi-perspectivity

7. Thinking with I-Docs

Appendix: Interactive Documentaries Referenced

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, Ella
Ella Harris is a freelance and academic researcher specialising in creative methods and ‘crisis cultures.’