'Walk-In Documentary': New paradigms for game-based interactive storytelling and experiential conflict mediation

In this article I explore the usefulness of adapting Alternative Reality Gaming (ARG) paradigms to 'interactive documentary', an emerging new media genre with great appeal for general film audiences, as well as an innovative new tool for use in public anthropology and in Drama for Conflict...

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Published inStudies in documentary film Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 189 - 202
Main Author Harvey, Kerric
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 01.01.2012
Intellect
Subjects
alternative reality games
augmented reality media
immersive media
interactive documentary
new media formats
virtual storytelling
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ISSN1750-3280
1750-3299
DOI10.1386/sdf.6.2.189_1

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Summary:In this article I explore the usefulness of adapting Alternative Reality Gaming (ARG) paradigms to 'interactive documentary', an emerging new media genre with great appeal for general film audiences, as well as an innovative new tool for use in public anthropology and in Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT). The potential success of ARG-based documentary as a new media storytelling format, I argue, rests on interactive documentary's ability to transform conventional non-fiction film viewing into a vibrantly engaging experiential practice in which producer, subject and audience have the ability to co-create more nuanced modalities for non-fiction media narratives than are currently achievable using traditional ethnographic and/or storytelling paradigms.
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ISSN:1750-3280
1750-3299
DOI:10.1386/sdf.6.2.189_1