[Commlist] New book: Documentary in the Age of AI: Creativity, Power, Technology

*NEW BOOK PUBLICATION*

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*Documentary in the Age of A**I: **Creativity, Power, Technology***

Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick) and Dafydd Sills-Jones (Auckland 
University of Technology) (editors)

(Peter Lang; Documentary in the Age of AI 
<https://www.peterlang.com/document/1510340>)

‘Documentary in the Age of AI is a distinguished contribution that moves 
beyond uncontentious debates on AI-generated creativity. It incisively 
examines the impact of generative AI across the entire documentary 
workflow as a creative act of ‘representing’ factuality. The book asks 
us to consider the extent to which documentary makers can – and should – 
permit AI systems to reframe events and stories originally intended for 
human telling.’
– Sun Park, Ad Astra Fellow/Assistant Professor in AI and Digital 
Cultural Heritage, University College Dublin


‘A timely volume that critically reviews the algorithmically mediated 
landscape in which documentary practitioners are working, Documentary in 
the Age of AI offers readers both theoretical and empirical insights 
into the myriad ways AI technologies are reshaping the documentary form 
and practice today. The book brings together work by a diverse slate of 
media theorists, filmmakers, and technologists, addressing urgent 
questions about documentary and truth, ethics, practitioners’ agency, 
creative labour, and data colonialism.’
– Pei-Sze Chow, Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and New Media, 
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


The integration of AI into documentary filmmaking has not only 
revolutionized production techniques but also raised critical questions 
about ethics, authenticity and the nature of truth in storytelling. As 
AI tools become more sophisticated, they offer filmmakers unprecedented 
capabilities to enhance creativity, automate tasks; use archival 
resources, and manipulate and generate content.


This edited collection seeks to delve into the multifaceted relationship 
between AI technology and the art and practice of documentary, exploring 
how AI is reshaping the creation, distribution and reception of 
non-fiction storytelling. Contributions from scholars, filmmakers and 
technologists critically examine the implications of this intersection, 
inviting readers to explore the nuances and complexities of this 
evolving landscape. In doing so, they rethink the possibilities of 
documentary as a creative treatment of actuality and raise important 
questions about documentary’s role in the power structures of a new data 
colonialist world order.

Contents:

*Foreword: */On Seeing and Believing;/**Katerina Cizek and shirin anlen**

*Chapter 1*/: Introduction: Documentary and AI;/**Pietari Kääpäand 
Dafydd Sills-Jones**

*Section I: AI’s Creative Frontiers *

*Chapter 2 */The Documentarian as Guide in the Realm of Creative AI/*; 
*Julia Scott-Stevenson**

*Chapter 3: */Generative AI and Documentary’s Metaphors/*; *Joseph Horsey**

*Chapter 4: */Revolutionizing Documentary Post-Production: The Role of 
Generative AI in Shaping Nonfiction Narratives;/**Onur Birol**

*Section II: AI as a Creative Tool*

*Chapter 5: */AI & Auteurs: Creative Labour Practices and Responsibility 
in AI-enabled Documentary/*; *Anandana Kapur & Nagma Sahi Ansari**

*Chapter 6: */Towards Computational and Expanded Documentary Forms – 
Possibilities, Problems, Creative Practices and Processes in Animated, 
Live-action and Immersive Documentary;/**Max Schleser, James Berrett, 
Delwyn Remedios, Susan Kerrigan**

*Chapter 7: */Story Machine: Documentary Film Editing and the Digital 
Process;/**Nick Hector**

*Chapter 8: */Reimagining Documentary: Assembling the Real and 
Algorithmic Agency in AI-Assisted Editing;/**Ruohan Tang

*Section III: AI and Ethical Concerns*

*Chapter 9*/: Generative AI and the Documentary Archive: Creative 
Opportunities and Ethical Abuses;/**Dominic Lees**

*Chapter 10: */Synthetic Realities: Audience and Creator Perspectives on 
AI-integrated Documentaries;/Anandana Kapur and Nagma Sahi Ansari

*Section IV: AI and Documentary Culture *

*Chapter 11: ‘*/I’m sorry…’: AI’s Contribution to Trash Cinema in 
Eternally Twilight: An AI’s Guide to the Twilight Saga;/**Gabriela Zogall**

*Chapter 12: */Framing Technology and Agency in AI-related 
Documentaries: a View from the Global South ;/**Jude Mathurine and 
Subeshini Moodley*//*

Documentary in the Age of AI <https://www.peterlang.com/document/1510340>


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