New documentary ecologies: emerging platforms, practices and discourses (original) (raw)

Emerging digital technologies are transforming representations of reality (Nichols 1991) at points of production, distribution, and reception. New Documentary Ecologies is a collective response which advocates for ecology (Fuller 2005), rather than context, as a frame for the investigation of emerging documentary. In doing so, the editors demand that the interdependent relationships between media are noticed as well as the contexts in which documentary is produced and consumed. This framework allows for a multi-layered collection of chapters from practitioners, academics, and industry professionals, acting as a guidebook to documentary practices in transition and introducing some of the challenges they present.