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Encountering the World with I-Docs

Interactive Documentary as a Research Method

Author: Ella Harris   Series: Creative Research Methods in Practice

Encountering the World with I-Docs
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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.

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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.

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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 and 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.

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Critic Reviews

"A compelling and timely work that widens the scope for thinking about, recognising and deploying creative methods, while encouraging fresh perspectives on power dynamics and the means by which realities are constructed. Encountering the World with I-Docs is a deeply inspirational read. It is a practical toolbox for researchers and for those whose work involves joint visioning, decision-making and new world-making." Evelyn Wilson, National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange

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About the Author

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

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Product Details

Publisher
Bristol University Press | Policy Press
Published
28th January 2025
Pages
148
ISBN
9781447374176

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