We publish pieces by researchers at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and beyond, exploring the evolution and impact of immersive media
These articles are produced as part of a research collaboration between MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and IDFA to interrogate user experience and impact.
AI and Documentary: Defining Our Terms Exploring AI at IDFA’s DocLab (part I)
Interrogating AI Through Audience Interaction Exploring AI at IDFA’s Doclab (part 2)
Family2Family: first steps In November 2018, we presented the prologue of Marrow: I’ve Always Been Jealous of Other People’s Families at IDFA…
Virtual Realities, an Immerse series features insights from researchers on the UK EPSRC-funded “Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters” project:
Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters Introducing a new research series on Immerse
What can the first years of VR nonfiction tell us about its future? Looking back on Virtual Reality nonfiction: 2012–2018
A Broken Empathy Machine? Can virtual reality increase pro-social behaviour and reduce prejudice?
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Feast MEMEX | Duologue on VimeoOther Immerse research articles include:
Almost Human: Goodbye Uncanny Valley Volumetric capturing, computational humans and our endless pursue towards realism
Creativity in Constraint Why less can be more in digital storytelling
Nothing About Us Without Us Lessons from the #More Than Code Report
What is Open Space New Media Documentary? A conversation with authors Helen De Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Dismantling the Metrics of Empathy (in 360 video) Are makers flying too close to the sun in their claims of impact?
Always On How should digital producers navigate privacy?
Why do i-docs matter? When I was around 9 years old, I was walking in a garden similar to the one on this picture when I noticed a strange…
Emplaced Interaction and Interactive Documentary Fighting algorithmic manipulation and filter bubbles with physical engagement
Designing i-docs for the classroom By Liz Miller
New Frontiers for Online Persuasion — and the Role of the Documentary Storyteller By Ben Moskowitz
The Disappearance Act On Preserving Non-Fiction Interactives
Booting Up Immersive News Labs Newsrooms are investing in laboratories to experiment with new storyforms. But many continue to rely on outside…
“Real Solidarity” Isn’t the Problem- Effective Action Is An Immerse response
Transmedia What? by Henry Jenkins What people new to the concept often do not understand is that transmedia is an adjective in search of a noun to…
The Trouble with Nonfiction Transmedia, by Sue Ding An Immerse response
Not a Film and Not an Empathy Machine, by Janet H. Murray How necessary failures will help VR designers invent new storyforms
VR is not film. So what is it? by William Uricchio An Immerse response
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