One portion of his work focuses on television's emergence as an idea and practice in the late 19th century, where Uricchio argues for a genealogy rooted in the telegraph and telephone rather than photography and film.

And it documents the deep reliance of the National Socialist era German electronics industry on multi-national partnerships, patents and licensing agreements.

His research lab at MIT focuses on the interactive documentary and its ability to enable widespread participation, while at the same time challenging established notions of authorship, reading practices and the stable text.

The MIT Open Documentary Lab has also used this opportunity to re-interrogate the past, finding there ample precedents for interactive, re-mixed, and location-based media, as argued in Moments of Innovation.

A recent report entitled Mapping the Intersection of Two Cultures, written by Uricchio and the Open Doc Lab team for the MacArthur Foundation, explores the relevance of interactive and immersive documentaries for digital journalism.

[12] This research focuses on regime change in representation, as norms shift from the modern era's fixation with the stability of algorismic certainties to our current engagement with dynamic and multi-perspectival algorithmic processes.

The algorithmic processes behind such collaborative cultural forms as Photosynth, Google, Wikipedia – and increasingly financial and cartographic practices – serve as the focus of this research.