This study examined whether viewing a documentary that depicts individuals with schizophrenia can reduce psychiatric stigma. One hundred and sixty-three individuals were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: no documentary film, documentary about polar bears, documentary about fears of being overweight, and documentary about schizophrenia. Participants also completed a battery of tasks a...

This paper seeks to explain the reasons for the rising popularity of the ethnological documentary genre in all its forms, emphasizing its correlation with contemporary social events or trends. The paper presents the origins and the development of the ethnological documentary film in the anthropological domain. Special attention is given to the most influential documentaries of the last decade, ...

Introduction. Theoretical approaches and frameworks that help us to understand the contemporary notion of information and communication technology literacy (ICT literacy) in the formal education sector are reviewed and examined. Method. The analysis is conducted from a technology (i.e., computer science) conceptual perspective. The focus is on those aspects of new literacies that are directly r...

In the era of digital globalization, instant exchange information, ideas, data, all traditional genres are undergoing a transformation process. The advent technology has created many opportunities for world documentary narratives. Digital recording and archiving, modern filming technologies, Internet, increasingly expanding communication flows changing both ways, methods techniques creating con...

This paper explores how the concept of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is constructed through Spanish media and documentary films and how it is represented. The article analyses three documentary films and the cultural and social contexts in and from which they emerged: Solé ́s Bucarest: la memòria perduda [Bucharest: Memory Lost] (2007), Bosch ́s Bicicleta, cullera, poma [Bicycle, Spoon, Apple] (2010) ...