An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Aida Vallejo (Nominated Fellow 2021-22; University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
Mapping Documentary Film Institutes and Networks: A Digital Humanities Approach to Collaborative Practices in the Creative Industries
This presentation will look at the possibilities opened up by Digital Humanities for the analysis of global cultural practices and infrastructures. It will show the results of the IDFmap project, which includes the creation of a global map of institutes for the promotion of documentary film operating worldwide, and a thorough analysis of the Scottish Documentary Institute, as a key agent for the promotion of documentary in Scotland since 2004. The study focuses on collaborative practices and connections, to unfold the cultural power relationships and hierarchies that underlie them, and that reflect post-colonial logics of cultural influence and dependence.
Firstly, I will reflect on methodological problems for the study of cultural industries in the digital context, and how Digital Humanities tools can help to overcome them. I will look at the practical implications of collecting and storing social and cultural data, establishing relationships among them by building databases, visualising their geopolitical scope by drawing digital maps, and analysing their relationships by creating network graphs. Secondly, I will analyse how these tools can serve to better understand international as well as local dynamics of cultural exchange, influence and power developed in the specific context of documentary film production and distribution in the last two decades.
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