Wow this reading was not a nice one. “The affordances of networked connectivity offer the potential to re-contextualise documentary material through mobilising the enormous co-creative potential of human discourse captured in the web. The challenge in these marriages of mass media form and rhizomatic network is to find new ways of shaping attention into a coherent experience. To do so we have to re-invent the social praxis of documentary, creating new visual and informational grammars.” Struggled to get through that one and it was one of the opening paragraphs.

Pretty much the reading went on to talk about how data is changing and how, simultaneously, our way of receiving and interpreting this data is also growing. The reading also went on to explain how documentary film has influenced changing the world, as opposed to simply just observing and recording it. I think this is an interesting point and one which relates to our other subject, True Lies: Documentaries. Representation is the key to communication.

So what does this mean when we look at the online models of documentation? As the web coding language HTML5 is becoming more of an integrated web technology as opposed to a simple add on, new connections can be made between source.

The discussion of the interface used in online documentary We Feel Fine was really a fascinating one. It essentially related to patterns on several different blogs which mentioned the same choice phrases or words. Each user has a unique experience when interacting with this documentary. It drew upon samples from the blogsphere and created something beautiful from it.