“First and foremost because the time of interactive documentary has come: online video distribution has proven its feasibility on a high bandwidth world and its proximity to interactive environments is pushing it towards interaction. Second the massive convergence process in course on a battle for “the screen” between TV broadcasters, online newspapers, and media distribution companies that desperately need innovative quality products to survive. Third, it appears that nowadays everyone is using the word “documentary to describe every single multimedia piece that incorporates video no matter its nature, technique, language or scope, … regarding this semantic abuse, the term “documentary” has been used with all sorts of prefixes….”
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