Encountering the World with I-Docs

Interactive Documentary as a Research Method

Ella Harris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2025
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7416-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines the values of interactive documentary as a social research method, exploring their exciting potential for illuminating and communicating pressing social issues. Providing a template for planning an i-doc, the novel book shows how the planning process alone can open new ways of understanding social research topics.

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.

Ella Harris is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Story Society at Bath Spa University.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Creative Research Methods in Practice
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-4473-7416-9 / 1447374169
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7416-9 / 9781447374169
Zustand	Neuware