What kind of genre is an interactive documentary? Is it still a documentary or would you say it is a new genre because of the hypertextual interface?
- Genre is never just about the textual form
- Genres are also always about the industries that help create them
- Interactive documentary allows for a more creative and unfixed approach to documentary genres.
- The conventions that hypertext have introduced effect the way we read other texts.
- All stories make truth claims for example: in The World or A World.
- Genre-on the one hand you can argue that documentary is the genre but you can also argue that there are genres within documentary. One being interactive documentary.
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If, interactive narratives have no singular, definitive beginnings and endings, then what would be the constraints for an author of interactive media to control the interpretation of a narrative?
- Authors cannot control the interpretations of the audience.
- Authors have no way to control their thoughts and should not claim to do so.
- What we interpret is text not authors.
- What rhymes with shop and you buy at the butchers…what do you do at a green light?
- Hypertext allows and encourages you to generate and imagine how two separate situations can relate, as we need to find a connection between the two.