New Documentary Ecologies Emerging Platforms, Practices and Discourses

Documentary remains a vital and dynamic media form, one that has persisted through decades of change in patterns of media production, distribution and reception, from its early conception in silent filmmaking, through 'new' media such as television, to the current explosion of digital platforms. New generations of documentary filmmakers, multimedia designers, online curators and social media aggregators are exploring the challenges and opportunities of a digital environment characterised as collaborative, participatory, and interactive. This book provides a unique collection of recent research into the ways in which these digital producers are adopting the 'documentary project' across digital platforms, developing new documentary practices and providing distinctive new ways for audiences to engage with reality.

Kate Nash is Lecturer in Media and Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Having formally worked as a documentary maker, she is currently studying how audiences interact with and interpret interactive documentary. She has also published on documentary ethics, particularly the relationship between documentary makers and participants.

Craig Hight is Associate Professor in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His current research focuses on the relationships between digital media technologies and documentary practice, especially the variety of factors shaping online documentary cultures.

Catherine Summerhayes' thesis, 'Film As Cultural Performance' focused on the concept and practice of theatrical performance in relation to film. Her work has been published in national and international journals and anthologies, and in 2012 she convened the 'Visible Evidence Conference in Documentary Studies' XIX. Her monograph, The Moving Images of Tracey Moffatt, was published in September 2007.

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