Ithaca College

Routledge Press has published Patricia Zimmermann and Helen De Michiel’s 2018 book Open Space New Media Documentary:A Toolkit for Theory and Practice in paperback. The book is now available as a hardback, eBook, and paperback.

Zimmermann is Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, and Helen De Michiel is Professor of Media at California College of the Arts.

Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new media documentary projects that move across platforms and utilize participatory modalities. 

The book offers an innovative theorization of these collaborative and collective new media practices, which the authors term "open space," gesturing towards a more contextual critical nexus of technology, form, histories, community, convenings, collaborations, and mobilities. 

It looks at a variety of low cost, sustainable and scalable documentary projects from across the globe, where new technologies meet places and people in Argentina, Canada, India, Indonesia, Peru, South Africa, Ukraine, and the USA.

https://www.routledge.com/Open-Space-New-Media-Documentary-A-Toolkit-for-Theory-and-Practice-1st/Zimmermann-De-Michiel/p/book/9780367887667