Encountering the World with I-Docs

Interactive Documentary as a Research Method

Ella Harris (Freelance researcher)

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English

Policy Press
28 January 2025

Electronic, holographic & video art; Research methods: general; Social research & statistics; Human geography

Series: Creative Research Methods in Practice

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.

By: Ella Harris (Freelance researcher)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781447374176
ISBN 10: 1447374177
Series: Creative Research Methods in Practice
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 28 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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

Reviews for Encountering the World with I-Docs: Interactive Documentary as a Research Method

""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-Doc 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