Mandy Rose's Outputs (13)

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2025)
Book Chapter

Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

VR and Biography (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

eXtending Reality: Immersive Design, Production and Technology
University of Portsmouth – Monday 11th September 2023

Abstract – Tom Livingstone and Mandy Rose – 24/05/23

VR and Biography:

This paper will explore the adaptability of new tech... Read More about VR and Biography.

“You feel, in that moment, you are sitting next to them!”: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality nonfiction in the home (2021)
Other

Summary findings from EPSRC Virtual Realities research project Household Study. Peer reviewed article in Convergence Journal - in UWE Research Repository.
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non... Read More about “You feel, in that moment, you are sitting next to them!”: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality nonfiction in the home.

‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
Journal Article

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.

The immersive turn: Hype and hope in the emergence of virtual reality as a nonfiction platform (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article responds to the recent wave of experimentation with Virtual Reality (VR) as a nonfiction platform. Amidst daily announcements of new VR documentary initiatives, and... Read More about The immersive turn: Hype and hope in the emergence of virtual reality as a nonfiction platform.

Technologies of seeing and technologies of corporeality: Currents in nonfiction virtual reality (2018)
Journal Article

Surveying the contemporary nonfiction work being developed within the framework of VR, an opposition emerges between the promise of VR as escape from materiality and a promise of corporeal engagement. In this article, I consider how this opposition b... Read More about Technologies of seeing and technologies of corporeality: Currents in nonfiction virtual reality.

Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism (2017)
Book Chapter

In this chapter I address the co-creative dimension of two interactive documentary projects – Question Bridge and Quipu. I examine the cultural precursors and contexts that inspired their divergent co-creative approaches. I consider how the producers... Read More about Not media about, but media with: Co-creation for activism.

i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary (2017)
Book

The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice withi... Read More about i-docs - the evolving practices of interactive documentary.

Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores significant collaborative, interactive documentary practices that are emerging in the context of digital culture, and situates these emerging practices in relation to the counter-history within documentary in which subjects have... Read More about Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship.

'This great mapping of ourselves’ – new documentary forms online (2013)
Book Chapter

The Are You Happy? project (2012)
Other

The Are you happy? Project is the first output of the Collaborative Docs practice-based Research Fellowship. The Are you happy? Project is situated in the context of participatory media and is concerned with how documentary practice can take advantag... Read More about The Are You Happy? project.

We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage (2012)
Journal Article

This article is concerned with the social praxis of documentary in the sea of ‘ubiquitous data’ that is both consequence and driver of online social mediation. The topic is given importance by the morphing of the character of video in the context of... Read More about We’re happy and we know it: Documentary, data, montage.

Collab docs blog
Other

The blog reflects the Collaborative Docs practice-based AHRC Research Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts. The research looks at the intersection between documentary and the Social, Semantic and Open Web. It investigates through action research... Read More about Collab docs blog.