WEBDOX: Doc & Tech LAB

The world of coding is revealed to the documentary makers by a team of techies with a soft spot for dox.

You will do interactive coding and apply it to your documentaries. You will think of new ways to create content for the web. You will try new ways of creating documentaries.

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InteractBuilder

InteractBuilder: A community for developing Interactive Books

Organizing a Web Native Story

On the Tillman Story, we used a mind-mapping tool called Popplet, where all filmmakers could collaborate and build in elements at the same time. Once you create the main themes, you can begin to fill in the elements of the story that fit that theme, then make connections between the story elements.

Organizing a Web Native Story | Living Docs

Living Docs

Living Docs projects use the open web as their canvas. By working in the open and sharing their code, these filmmakers are building the foundations for a new genre of documentary.

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Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives

The advent of new communication technologies has brought forth a set of opportunities and challenges for traditional media professions, such as journalism. This challenging new context is evident from the plethora of books and articles that suggest radical changes to human perception, cognition, and expression precipitated by new technologies. For example, a robust literature exploring hypertext suggests that computer technologies spell the end of what has traditionally counted as "good writing" and, in fact, portend the death of print. While these claims are provocative and somewhat convincing, they lack an empirical dimension that investigates "what these new systems 'do to' reader practices and what the reader can do with the systems" (Rasmussen, 1994, p. 105).

The purpose of this paper is to explore the particular challenges of hypertext theories to narrative forms and practices of journalism by examining the interactions of news readers and hypertexts. Specifically, it will report the findings of a qualitative study of online news users who read both an original news story that appeared on the Los Angeles Times website and a redesigned, hypertext version of the same material. By asking readers to think about and explain the differences between these competing forms of news, we hope to begin documenting the viability of hypertext and exploring its implications for journalism practice. The remainder of this paper will explain the theoretical framework guiding this study, methodology and method used, findings generated, and conclusions and implications for future research and professional practice.

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/huesca.html

Rashomon Project

Med stadig større spredning av mobile kameraer blir demonstrasjoner, politisk uro, og andre nyhetshendelser ofte godt dokumentert med digital video og stillbilder, som blir lagt ut på nettet på nettsteder som YouTube. Samtidig er det fortsatt vanskelig å få et helhetlig bilde over en hendelse, med utgangspunkt i de mange forskjellige kilder. Resultatet kan fort bli at seerne trekker motstridende konklusjoner, fordi de bare får sett deler av det tilgjengelige materiale.

Rashomon-prosjektet har som mål å utvikle et online-verktøy som vil gjøre det enklere å sette sammen og offentlig gjennomgå flere videoer, justert slik at de vises samtidig. Innledende forsøk med video fra vanlige iPhone og Android telefoner viser at metadata innebygd i de digitale filene kan brukes til å gjøre en svært god justering. Når videoene er justert, kan lydsignaler fra videoene bli analysert for å ytterligere forbedre justeringen.



En slik verktøykasse vil være nyttig for det offentlige, borgerjournalister, og muligens også for domstoler eller i andre sammenhenger der en vil undersøke omstridte hendelser.

Målet med prosjektet er å gi publikum (potensielt hundretusener av seere) en mye bedre forståelse av omstridte hendelser med utgangspunkt i bruker-genererte bilder og video, sammenlignet med det som er mulig i dag.

Rashomon Project via  dimag.no

Interactive documentary and education: a field to explore

In our previous posts of this series (Part I – Part II) we tried to argue that although it is clear that the main scope of interactive documentary focuses on the field of audiovisual and cultural dissemination, we believe that there is another closely related field which soon will begin to emerge and explode giving us all their latent potential: the interactive nonfiction genres related to education, teaching and training. That’s why we started toproduce projects in the Interactive Communication Studies at the University of Vic in that direction.

Constructivist and constructionist theories applied to the field of education seem very relevant to our proposal, as they are flexible enough to adapt to the knowledge and multidisciplinary emphasize in the use of information technology and communication as an essential component of learning.

Constructivism is a theory of learning and an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways that people create meaning of the world through a series of individual constructs. Constructs are the different types of filters we choose to place over our realities to change our reality from chaos to order. Simply stated, it is a learning process which allows a student to experience an environment first-hand, thereby giving the student reliable, trust-worthy knowledge. The student is required to act upon the environment to both acquire and test new knowledge.

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