rightClickReal_ Explicating Interactivity in the Digital Documentary

The study reviews interactivity’s impact from the perspective of documentary scholars. The resulting considerations are viewed in current digital documentary projects. The resulting aspects of interactivity are studied through a cross-field review of interactivity applications in New Media. The study explicates three forms of interactivity defined through interface science, user communication, and game narrative. The interactivity theory is applied in contemporary studies of telepresence, cultural communication, and non-linear narrative. The New Media studies are framed in documentary studies to comment on the aesthetics of reality, the documentary as an autobiography, and the subjective documentary essay. The analysis suggests interactivity is a unique aspect of the digital documentary form. The use of interactivity creates a unique documentary experience in all three processes reviewed. Interactivity has shown the ability of digital to redesign the documentary form. This permutation of interactive technology shows emergent innovations in which could redefine reality, question communication, and fragment plot in documentary theory.