[Commlist] new book: Documentary’s Transmedia Metamorphosis: Content Production and Social Change

New book:

Documentary’s Transmedia Metamorphosis: Content Production and Social Change

Norman S. Zafra

Routledge


Abstract

Documentary’s Transmedia Metamorphosis interrogates how the documentary 
genre is transforming and adjusting its practices to adapt to shifting 
technologies and fragmented audiences.

The book is both a critical and creative exploration of what it means to 
work across media for the purpose of storytelling, engagement, and 
social change. The core of this work’s reflexive analysis is the 
production and circulation of the author’s independent and transmedia 
documentary project Obrero (“worker”) that explores the conditions and 
context of the Filipino rebuild workers who migrated to Christchurch, 
New Zealand, after the earthquake in 2011. Audiences of labour migration 
documentaries span a diverse set of publics – ranging from source to 
receiving countries. This volume, therefore, assumes a more 
sophisticated approach to audience engagement and storytelling, given 
the disparity of the target audience’s interest, stake in, and position 
on the subject matter. It then examines the various forms and iterations 
of contemporary documentaries through the use of multiple platforms and 
assesses their efficacy in this digital age.

Combining theory with first-hand practical experience, this book will 
appeal to researchers and postgraduate students of media production, 
documentary, performance, journalism, communication studies, activism, 
and creative practice.

The book has 6 chapters:

Chapter 1. Documentary Meets Transmedia Storytelling

Chapter 2. Documentary Practice is Research

Chapter 3. Doing and Making the Documentary Film

Chapter 4. Opportunities and Discontents of a Facebook-Native Documentary

Chapter 5. Documentary’s Creative Shapeshifting From Film To I-Doc

Chapter 6. Transmedia Documentary and Social Change

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003787259/documentary-transmedia-metamorphosis-norman-zafra 
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