_Mapping the Intersection of Two Cultures: Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism
35The projects on this playlist mark the convergence of interactive documentary and digital journalism; two forms that, despite their distinctive…
_The Visceral Web
5The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…
_The Personal is the Political
7Paisley Smith shares which personal stories (across platforms) have impacted her over the years.
_Harsh Wonder: The Mystery & Reality of Being Alive
10I think a lot about this Mary Oliver quote: “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt…
_Constraints
11Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…
_Sound stories
5Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.
_The New Visual Documentary
12The new visual documentary is different from what already exists in the well-defined editorial, film, broadcasting, and art contexts, both…
_Let’s play with documentary!
11Since the very beginning of cinema, documentary has played. With its characters (Nanook of the North), with reality (all modern mixes between…
_Interactive Documentary: My Favorite Latin Projects
12Canada and France are always going to be the pioneering leaders in the production of interactive documentaries. It seems that other countries,…
_Documentary Games
11The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"
_Documentary as Co-Creation
10In the context of networked culture the ground beneath documentary has shifted. Cheap, accessible, and mobile production tools make the…
_Trailblazers, Technologies and Truth(s)
13Documentarians have always been at the forefront of innovation in form and content, as William Uricchio has so eloquently highlighted with…
_The Internet is Reality
5We interpret the world around us, we seek and capture reality, we steal bits of life that occur outside our devices. We press “rec”…
_Tablet-ready Interactive Docs
8Tablets provide a visually beautiful and rich experience that brings audiences closer to the material, make it easy to engage with deeper…
_Transmedia 101
7Innovative projects showcasing the potential of transmedia approaches in documentary, curated by MIT Open Documentary Lab.
