_Sound stories

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by Francesca Panetta

Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.

_Ingrid’s Picks

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by Ingrid Kopp

Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives at the Tribeca Film Institute, shares some of her favorite interactive works, from early influences…

_The New Visual Documentary

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by Liza Faktor

The new visual documentary is different from what already exists in the well-defined editorial, film, broadcasting, and art contexts, both…

_Confinement

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.

_Documentary Games

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by The MIT Game Lab

The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"

_The Visceral Web

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by Elaine McMillion Sheldon

The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…

_In Search of Truth

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by Kamal Sinclair

I’m fascinated by the relationship of “point-of-view” to our understanding of truth. I’m amazed by how vehemently we hold on to…

_Full Spectrum Documentary on the Climb

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by Jessica Clark

Since 2008, AIR has been cultivating an emerging documentary form: “full spectrum public media.”  Such creations extend beyond the…

_VR for All

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Docubase has partnered with the LucidWeb platform to showcase gold star immersive 360° videos and make them accessible.

_Energy, Economy and Culture

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by Patricia Aufderheide

Can interactive docs bring social issues alive differently and in ways that more directly make connections for users between their own lives…

_The Living Documentary

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by Sandra Gaudenzi

I do not see interactive technology as a tool, but as a process that brings cultural, aesthetic, and political changes. Within this context,…

_Collective Wisdom

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by Co-Creation Studio

The Co-Creation studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab published Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines…

_Pushing Boundaries

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by AIR

Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…

_Re-Enchanting Spaces: Participatory Location-Based Media

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by Sue Ding

Location-based media—physically or digitally linked to physical locations, conceptually connected to these locations, and designed to…

_Transmedia 101

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Innovative projects showcasing the potential of transmedia approaches in documentary, curated by MIT Open Documentary Lab.