Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
Geek Dad on Amaranth Borsuk: “Why I Love Augmented Reality Right Now”
“It was fascinating to see how words and narrative could do different things and be twisted and turned and controlled by the reader.”
Podcast: Jesse Shapins, “Mapping the Urban Database Documentary”
Jesse Shapins is a media theorist, documentary artist, and social entrepreneur.
Molly Sauter: “Policy Effects of Media Portrayals of Hacktivists”
“I’ll be questioning what these trends of laws, regulations, and apparent media biases mean for the future of hacktivism and digital activism.”
Podcast: “Documentary Film and New Technologies”
How will handheld video cameras and ubiquitous open-source computing change the nature of documentary film?
Video and podcast: “The Future of the Post Office”
The post office’s once indispensable role in fostering civic discourse has been challenged by the Internet and mobile telephony. How is it coping?
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv”
Sasha Costanza-Chock on the tools, skills, social practices, and norms movement participants deploy to create, circulate, curate, and amplify their media.
