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Interactive documentaries

This chapter introduces interactive documentaries (also known as i-docs) in digital and audiovisual anthropology. Interactive documentaries allow an audience to actively engage with an interface in order to experience the content. For example, opening Miranda Dahlin’s Exiliados: Mexican Asylum in El Paso (Dahlin 2020), one lands on the home-page of the web-documentary. Let me describe my navigation experience.

Author

Federico de Musso

Date

30 November 2021

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De Musso, F. (2021). Interactive documentaries. In C. Grasseni, B. Barendregt, E. de Maaker, A. Littlejohn, M. Maeckelbergh, M. Postma, & M. R. Westmoreland (Eds.), Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography: A Practical and Theoretical Guide (pp. 143-167). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003132417-7