The canon or the playlist of the webdocumentary

• Autor(a) principal: Penafria, Manuela
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Texto digital
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/textodigital/article/view/77564

All art has its own canon. Digital creation is clearly an artistic creation, which includes the webdocumentary. In this sense, it is legitimate to ask whether the webdocumentary has a canon. In order to discuss this issue, I focus on the MIT Open Documentary Lab website, a well-recognized entity in digital creation, where professionals, academics and critics chose webdocumentaries of their preference and presented the reasons for their choices. I begin by noting that the term “canon” is absent, playlist is the term used. In the first part of the text, after a brief discussion about “canon” and playlist, data about the playlists are presented and I create a super playlist, that is, a list of the most voted webdocumentaries. Then, I read the comments in order to understand what qualities are highlighted there. This reading intends to contribute to a knowledge of the webdocumentary as an activity of artistic creation, as well as the qualities of specific works that were highlighted by the critical eye of specialists.