[Commlist] New Book - Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Transmedia Arts Activism, Critical Design and Ethics

New book:

Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Transmedia Arts 
Activism, Critical Design and Ethics:.

Description

This book offers a theory and methodology of transmedia arts activism 
within the technocultural and sociopolitical landscape of expanded 
documentary production, distribution, reception and participation. 
Through a detailed analysis of the author’s transmedia project on 
indigenous and minority language endangerment and revival that consists 
of the feature-length documentary Tongues of Heaven and the companion 
web application Root Tongue: Sharing Stories of Language Identity and 
Revival, she reveals the layers and depths of a critical arts practice 
when confronted with complex sociopolitical issues while working with 
multiple communities across territorial/national boundaries. In the 
context of the growing field of transmedia documentaries, the author 
discusses the potentials and benefits of a critical design practice and 
production ethics that can transform this field to pilot new 
collaborations in documentary and digital media platforms towards a 
third digital documentary.



Reviews

“Chang shifts debate from how we can preserve languages to how we can 
create new ones – new, digital, interactive ones that will give fresh 
life to languages imperiled by global forces of homogenization. Her 
vision, based on her own work, of an online art platform that moves us 
from passively absorbing information to actively creating embodied 
knowledge is a crucial demonstration of how activism can adapt new forms 
of media to progressive goals.” (Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to 
Documentary and Representing Reality)



“This book is a rousing call to a collaborative documentary and 
transmedia practice that is at once theoretically astute and ethically 
committed. As she sets out with her partners to preserve linguistic 
diversity from Taiwan to Hawai‘i, Anita Chang charts a course for 
community-engaged documentary and transmedia projects that decolonize 
through the dialogical possibilities of digital media. Third Digital 
Documentary represents the very best of a growing trend toward the 
convergence of scholarly, activist, and creative pursuits.” (Alexander 
L. Fattal, author of Shooting Cameras for Peace / Disparando Cámaras 
para la Paz)



“Chang beautifully articulates the uncharted opportunities and perils 
of working between stations of identity and history. Dually located in 
Taiwan and Hawai‘i, Third Digital Documentary moves across the terrain 
of transmedia indigenous theory and praxis. Filmmaker and scholar, Chang 
champions an ethics of relations informed by a comprehensive engagement 
with critical practices of feminist film and critical race studies that 
further trouble the critical territory of post-colonial subjects. The 
result is a powerful intertwining of indigenous language and cultural 
analysis in relation to a radical experimental documentary 
collaboration.” (Beth Coleman, author of Race as Technology and Hello 
Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation)



“Chang’s book should be very useful to educators, artists and 
activists as a guide to building counterpublics that discursively 
vitalize and revitalize spaces of freedom.” (Lana Lin, director of The 
Cancer Journals Revisted and author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost 
Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer)

Contents
Introduction
1 A Discourse of ‘Image Sovereignty’: Variations on an Ideal/Image of 
Native Self-Representation

2 Digital Documentary Praxis

3 An Essay on Editing

4 Networked Audio-Visual Culture and New Digital Publics

5 Documentary and Online Transmediality Toward a Third Digital Documentary
Conclusion

Orders

https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/66645

https://www.amazon.com/Third-Digital-Documentary-Practice-Transmedia/dp/1789973295 
(Discounted 20%)



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