Kathleen M. Ryan is a documentary filmmaker and an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her hybrid work focuses on transformations in storytelling due to shifting media technologies. Specifically, she explores the intersection of theory and praxis within evolving media forms such as interactive documentary. Her projects deal with issues of gender, self-identity, visuality, and user/participant agency.

David Staton is an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado where he teaches in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. His areas of research include visual communication, ethics, and sports journalism. He has been involved in the production of three feature-length documentary films, which have been screened internationally. Ghost Resort, his first experimental documentary short, is now at festival.

Part 1: Potentials 1. Agency Through Co-Creation: Interactive Documentary as Decolonizing Practice 2. Interactive Documentary: Its History and Future as a Polyphonic Form 3. Choose Your Own Generation: Interactive LGBTQ+ Narratives From South Asian Families 4. Documentary Impact: A Framework for Analyzing Engagement Strategies Used in i-docs Part 2: Collaborations 5. Democratizing Documentary and Interactive Social Media Practices 6. An Outsider Approach to Cinematography: Native Representation, Breaking the Norms and Finding New Ways to Explore Indigenous Spaces 7. Reframing Creative Practice for Telling Factual Stories Of War And Trauma Through Oral History Interactive Documentary (OHID) Part 3: Poetics 8. Interactive Multispecies Documentary Methods in Wretched Waters: The Slow Violence of the Rio Doce Disaster 9. On Histories of Dispersal, the Missing Pictures and Ways of Knowing: The Artist's Space Redefined for a Plural Art Practice 10. Decolonizing Transmedia Practices: An Essay on Editing Part 4: Technologies 11. Between Self and Other: Propositions for Non-Dualistic Research on VR 12. Beyond Technology's Promise: Building Trust, Owning Narrative, Self-Authorship, and the Power of Storytelling! 13. Desert Stars: Effectuation and Co-Creation in a Research-Creation i-doc Part 5: Expanding Boundaries 14. Guerrilla Archaeology and Ancient Aliens: Countering the Mediascapes of Stigmatized Knowledge 15. Responding to Tension 16. In the Light of Memory 17. Expanding Boundaries, Indigenous and Migrant Cartographies: Counter-Mapping the Inter-National Relations of the Odeimin Runners Club