Interactive documentary as relational media: exploring an actor-network theory approach

IF 0.5 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Studies in Documentary Film Pub Date : 2020-09-04 DOI:10.1080/17503280.2020.1815126

John Hondros

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper explores Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a framework for understanding interactive documentary. It examines Adrian Miles’s work in this area, where he uses ANT as a way of conceptualising interactive documentary as socio-technical media assemblages and consequently to question the relationship between human and non-human agency as understood within the field. After introducing ANT and reviewing Miles’s position, the paper engages in a detailed discussion of ANT’s key concepts in the context of specific interactive documentaries showing how these concepts operate and examining the insights they provide. This discussion supports and extends Miles’s position while also broadening and deepening interactive documentary’s engagement with ANT through a more detailed and systematic engagement with its concepts than has been attempted previously. The paper concludes by raising issues concerning the adaption of ANT’s concepts to the field, including the question of whether they offer a complete theoretical framework for understanding interactive documentary and by suggesting future lines of enquiry to address these issues.

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互动纪录片作为关系媒体:探索行动者网络理论方法

本文探讨了演员网络理论作为理解互动纪录片的一个框架。它考察了Adrian Miles在这一领域的工作，他使用ANT将互动纪录片概念化为社会技术媒体组合，从而质疑该领域所理解的人类和非人类代理之间的关系。在介绍了ANT并回顾了Miles的立场后，本文在具体的互动纪录片中详细讨论了ANT的关键概念，展示了这些概念是如何运作的，并考察了它们提供的见解。这次讨论支持并扩展了Miles的立场，同时也通过比以往更详细、更系统地参与其概念，扩大和深化了互动纪录片与ANT的互动。论文最后提出了有关ANT概念在该领域的适应性的问题，包括它们是否为理解互动纪录片提供了一个完整的理论框架，并提出了解决这些问题的未来研究方向。

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Studies in Documentary Film FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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1.00

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： Studies in Documentary Film is the first refereed scholarly journal devoted to the history, theory, criticism and practice of documentary film. In recent years we have witnessed an increased visibility for documentary film through conferences, the success of general theatrical releases and the re-emergence of scholarship in documentary film studies. Studies in Documentary Film is a peer-reviewed journal.