This section contains the coded segments of qualitative video interviews with interactive documentary experts including authors, producers and scholars on the topic of the role of the author in the interactive documentary. The 43 interviews with a total length of 65 minutes were conducted by Gifreu-Castells. (Watch full video here -->)

 

The 43 experts interviewed on this topic are (in alphabetical order):

Christopher Allen, Andre Valentim Almeida, Judith Aston, Samuel Bollendorff, Katerina Cizek, Ferran Clavell, Sharon Daniel, Nonny de la Peña, Arnaud Dressen, Jean Baptiste Dumont, Katie Edgerton, Yasmin Elayat, Gary Flahive, Sandra Gaudenzi, Jonathan Harris, Gerald Holubowicz, Seth Keen, Ingrid Kopp, Richard Lachman, Paul Levinson, Brenda Longfellow, Susanna Lotz, Jigar Mehta, Jeremy Mendes, Adrian Miles, Vincent Morrisset, Bjarke Myrthu, Kate Nash, Cindy Poremba, Mike Robbins, Joel Ronez, Mandy Rose, Jesse Shapins, Matt Soar, Caspar Sonnen, Guy Spriggs, Hugues Sweeney, Florian Thalhofer, Paulina Tervo, William Uricchio, Brian Winston, Sarah Wolozin.

 

Short biographies of the interviewees can be found at comeindoc.com.

 

The posed open-ended interview question was: “Do you believe that the role of the author is threatened in this new genre?”

 

The qualitative research method of coding, according to constructivist grounded theory, has been used to analyse and evaluate the interviews. Using the software f4analyse codes have been applied to extract quotes from the transcript. Some interview segments have been coded multiple times with different codes.

 

The table below shows the code names, ranked by the number of interview segments marked with each code.

 

Click on a code to navigate to the coded interview segments.