Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
A panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality — Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen — to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
Podcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengalis who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era.
Evaluating Interactive Documentaries: Audience, Impact and Innovation in Public Interest Media
This thesis explores the “theories of change” that inform institutional investments in documentary and examines how three public interest media organizations – the National Film Board of Canada, POV and the New York Times – are approaching interactive documentary production, attempting to define what constitutes success or impact.
The Production Process of “Do Not Track”
Deniz Tortum’s Docubase case study of production process of “Do Not Track”, an interactive web documentary about internet privacy.
Sandra Gaudenzi: “Digital Me Demo & Feedback Session”
Digital Me, an interactive documentary, is a private experience that uses personalization to make you reflect on your multiple and hybrid (digital/physical) personalities while guaranteeing you the ownership of the data that is retrieved about yourself.
Sandra Gaudenzi: “From Interaction to Personalization: What Happens When We Become Part of the Story”
What happens to our understanding of reality when we become the protagonists of hypothetical worlds?
