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This allows for expanded perspectives and readings. It introduces non-linear, iterative relationships that afford a certain agency to the audience now scrolling through, or immersed, in a storyworld within which they can maneuver and to which, sometimes, they might contribute. The work of the audience on-line often happens in navigating the menu of an online documentary, thereby co-creating a textual path through a myriad of choices. These platforms included: GroupStream, Vojo, Cowbird, Mozilla’s Popcorn, and Zeega, as well as video platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and others that were just emerging. Makers of these projects relied on a cohort of independently built platforms in order to organize community-generated stories. (Cizek’s NFB Filmmaker in Residence is considered the first feature-length online documentary.) Often, these projects merged in-person community-based work with emerging tools of decentralized networks of engagement over the internet. Web-based interactive documentaries began flourishing in the early 2000s when web technology became robust enough to enable video formats more easily.

Photo by Thomas Dhaenens and Michiel Devijver. Above, an immersive theatre piece entitled £¥€$ (LIES), in which audience members play a form of poker. The Belgian theater and performance collective, Ontroerend Goed, greets audiences as co-creators.

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