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Ambient Media Making, Auto-Documentary, and Affect

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This chapter describes a variety of emerging apps and platforms that constitute new forms of vernacular nonfiction. These apps and platforms create informal media trails as part of our mediated everyday. When considered as systems these apps provide a model for a yet to be realised mode of “auto-documentary” that aggregates events through what are described as automatic and ambient media machines.

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  1. School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Adrian Miles

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Miles, A. (2018). Ambient Media Making, Auto-Documentary, and Affect. In: Miles, A. (eds) Digital Media and Documentary. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68643-1_5

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