Doing Visual Research offers researchers in the social sciences an innovative orientation to
the ways in which visual tools such as photography, video, drawing and objects can be used …

The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of
a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies …

In January 1994 the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico inaugurated a new era of
media use for dissent. Since that time, an array of dissenting collectives and individuals …

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to
understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons …

“Why don't they just move?” This reductive question is asked whenever reports surface of the
all-too-common lack of social services and economic opportunities in Canada's rural and …

In this article I argue that participatory video must acknowledge its often technocratic, liberal
presumptions, and take a more critical look at the political underpinnings of …

Documentary film festivals do more than provide a venue for watching films: they have the
potential to foster critical thinking, especially toward mainstream media. The film festivals …

Documentary has its own DIY history. The story might be said to begin in Great Britain in
1935. That year Ruby Grierson, whose brother John had coined the term “documentary” a …

Mandated to foster a sense of national cohesion The National Film Board of Canada's Still
Photography Division was the country's official photographer during the mid-twentieth …

This article discusses the narrative and cinematic strategies used by activist documentaries
on migration to enhance the empathy of spectators for the experiences of refugees. Empathy …