How do emerging media change the way we tell non-fiction stories? What are the potentials and limitations of using interactive and non-linear forms to negotiate between reality on the one hand and representation, and interpretation on the other? What are some of the inherent biases of these technologies, and what kind of challenges do they pose to traditional documentary methods? This practice-based course addresses such questions and explores documentary practice in emergent media technologies such as web-based interfaces, AR/VR/MR and locative media, GPS-adapted systems, desktop and mobile applications. Over the course of the semester, students develop and complete a series of conceptual exercises and a final project using a variety of proprietary and open-source tools and technologies. Combining screenings, discussions, readings and production assignments, this hybrid (part online, part on site) course focuses on issues regarding representation, semantics, sequencing, and non-linearity when using integrated media. Students work with text, graphics, stills, sound, video and performance art, and experiment with linear and hypertextual navigation interfaces as well as popular social media and mapping tools. Students may either develop an existing project or generate a new proposal in class, ideally using previously acquired media (video, audio, photography, text). Prior coding and/or web design experience is helpful, but the course also makes use of pre-designed models to help facilitate production processes for those students with limited exposure to coding and digital design. IMPORTANT: This is a hybrid course; meaning that the class will alternate between on-site and online meetings. A course calendar with online and on-site dates will be handed out at the beginning of the semester.