Ethical Challenges for Documentarians in a User-Centric Environment
Forthcoming in: New Documentary Ecologies, Palgrave
15 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2013
Date Written: October 3, 2013
Abstract
Ethical challenges are a daily feature of the work of documentarians who strive to communicate something honestly about something real. Those ethical challenges proliferate in the digital environment. Historically, ethical questions for documentarians are anchored to the need to maintain trust and good faith with three entities: their subjects, their audiences, and their sponsors (including, sometimes, themselves). The digital era poses new challenges to each relationship, in new ways. However, the core issues continue to revolve around the three relationships where trust is key.
Keywords: documentary, film, ethics, transmedia, interactive, digital
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