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Charles Greenberg is the original author of this guide, which he updated through July 2019.
Unlike a typical filmed documentary, which is both linear and a reduced synthesis of source materials, database documentaries are modular, branching, and hyper textual. Database documentaries are multi linear, not watched, but rather performed by a reader/viewer who is provided with a series of guided paths. Database documentaries may be built on multiple, overlapping databases. Or they may even consist only of active links that retrieve even external media or content. The possibility for alternative paths, which are user-activated, a far greater fluidity of movement and pacing is possible.
SOURCE: Burdick, A., Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Pressner, T., & Schnapp, J. (2012). Digital Humanities. Cambridge, MA: Massachuetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digitalhumanities
Electronic Resource 2015
This book discusses how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media. What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough--or should we look further? In Expressive Processing. Digital media offer particularly intelligible examples of things we need to understand about software in general; if we understand, for instance, the capabilities and histories of artificial intelligence techniques in the context of a computer game, we can use that understanding to judge the use of similar techniques in such higher-stakes social contexts as surveillance.
