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Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media

Relational Practice and (De)Stabilized Reception
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Edition Medienwissenschaft, Volume 130
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 2026

Summary

Interactive documentaries combine moving images, text, graphics, and digital interactions to create dynamic, web-based narrative formats. As a post-cinematographic expansion of the classical documentary film, they provide viewers with opportunities to select options and make decisions that co-determine what is shown and in what order. This volume brings together perspectives from film, media, game, and interface studies and includes analyses of key works as well as interviews with actors involved in making interactive documentaries. Key topics explored include opportunities for participating in interactive formats, challenges for the long-term archiving and accessibility of browser-based documentaries, and the influence of software and interfaces on the concept of the documentary.

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Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2026
Copyright Year
2026
ISBN-Print
978-3-8376-7904-5
ISBN-Online
978-3-8394-3066-8
Publisher
transcript, Bielefeld
Series
Edition Medienwissenschaft
Volume
130
Language
English
Pages
259
Product Type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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  1. FrontmatterPages 1 - 6
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  2. IntroductionPages 7 - 16
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  3. The Ethics of EmergencePages 17 - 31
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  4. Media Analysis InterdocPages 33 - 50
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  5. “In the beginning, there was only one mistake we could make and that was not to try.”Pages 51 - 58
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  6. Have You Seen Everything? Accessing Content in Web‐Based Interactive DocumentariesPages 59 - 71
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  7. “I don’t think we’re going to face a disaster like we faced with Flash again”.Pages 73 - 84
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  8. You Take Orders From Me NowPages 85 - 103
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  9. From Taking Part to Having a Part?Pages 105 - 121
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  10. Getting Through Difficult Conversations: Co‑Creative Interactive Documentary and AdvocacyPages 123 - 139
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  11. Two Kinds of Interactive DocumentaryPages 141 - 151
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  12. The Act of Creation Is a Means to an EndPages 153 - 161
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  13. The Sandbox MindsetPages 163 - 177
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  14. Interactive Documentary in Teaching. A Practical ReportPages 179 - 183
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  15. Stop, Skip, and Operate: Epistemologies of the Interactive Documentary FilmPages 185 - 198
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  16. Becoming RiverPages 199 - 215
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  17. Moving Through the DocumentaryPages 217 - 230
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  18. “Epistemologies of Restitution”. Interactive Audiovisual Historiography on Returning Cultural Materials Looted From the Former German Colony of TogoPages 231 - 248
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  19. AuthorsPages 249 - 258
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