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Title What's a cellphilm? : integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism / edited by Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder and Joshua Schwab-Cartas.

Publication Info. Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary What's a Cellphilm? explores cellphone video production for its contributions to participatory visual research. There is a rich history of integrating participants' videos into community-based research and activism. However, a reliance on camcorders and digital cameras has come under criticism for exacerbating unequal power relations between researchers and their collaborators. Using cellphones in participatory visual research suggests a new way forward by working with accessible, everyday technology and integrating existing media practices. Cellphones are everywhere these days. People use mobile technology to visually document and share their lives. This new era of democratised media practices inspired Jonathan Dockney and Keyan Tomaselli to coin the term cellphilm (cellphone + film). The term signals the coming together of different technologies on one handheld device and the emerging media culture based on people's use of cellphones to create, share, and watch media. Chapters present practical examples of cellphilm research conducted in Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, the Netherlands and South Africa. Together these contributions consider several important methodological questions, such as: Is cellphilming a new research method or is it re-packaged participatory video? What theories inform the analysis of cellphilms? What might the significance of frequent advancements in cellphone technology be on cellphilms? How does our existing use of cellphones inform the research process and cellphilm aesthetics? What are the ethical dimensions of cellphilm use, dissemination, and archiving? These questions are taken up from interdisciplinary perspectives by established and new academic contributors from education, Indigenous studies, communication, film and media studies.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; WHAT'S A CELLPHILM? AN INTRODUCTION; BUT FIRST, WHAT IS A CELLPHONE?; COMING TOGETHER: THE INTERNATIONAL CELLPHILM FESTIVAL; CELLPHILM AS AN AESTHETIC PRACTICE; LOOKING AT CELLPHILMS; SITUATING CELLPHILM METHOD IN RELATION TO PARTICIPATORY VIDEO; ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLECTION; NOTES; REFERENCES; PART I: CELLPHILMS FROM THE PROFESSIONAL TO THE PERSONAL; 1. POETRY IN A POCKET: The Cellphilms of South African Rural Women Teachers and the Poetics of the Everyday; INTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; ABOUT METHOD: WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO WITH A CELLPHONE?
5 CELLPHILMS: POETIC TRANSACTIONSTransaction 1: Village Gathering; Transaction 2: My Beloveth Kids; Transaction 3: Christmas Crazy; Transaction 4: Thembi Kumalo; Transaction 5: Ntombi's Home Video; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 2. SMALLER LENS, BIGGER PICTURE: Exploring Self-Generated Cellphilms in Participatory Research; INTRODUCTION; PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION; THE RESEARCH AT PHEZULU SAFARI PARK; THE CELLPHILMS; BENEFITS; SOME CONCERNS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES.
3. LIVING OUR LANGUAGE: Zapotec Elders and Youth Fostering Intergenerational Dialogue through Cellphone VideosCUZULÚ (THE BEGINNING): PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; GUENDARUCAALU (THE CHALLENGE); RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; An Insider Project: A Lifetime Journey of Language Revitalization in Ranchu Gubiña; History of the Methodology; Zapotec Youth and Cellphone/Ipod Technology in our Community; INTERGENERATIONAL WORKSHOP; CELLPHILMS BY OTHER WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES AND REACTIONS; CELLPHILMING AND GUIDED PARTICIPATION WITH AN ELDER.
SHI BICHUGALE? (WHY CELLPHONES?): THEORIZING CELLPHILM AND THE BODYCONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 4. REMAINING ANONYMOUS: Using Participatory Arts-Based Methods with Migrant Women Workers in the Age of the Smartphone; OBJECTIVES; Background: Voices of Women Media; SEX WORK; METHODOLOGY; Cine-Feminism and Counter-Cinema; Participatory Action Research (PAR); Women's Empowerment; EMBRACING CELLPHILMING IN VOW MEDIA; Case Study (1) Migrant Sex Workers in Amsterdam; The Videos: Amsterdam; Case Study (2): Under Surveillance in Hong Kong; The Videos: Hong Kong.
TRUSTING THE TECHNOLOGYCONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; PART II: CELLPHILMING AS PEDAGOGY; 5. STUDENT A/R/TOGRAPHERS CREATING CELLPHILMS; BACKGROUND; LITERATURE REVIEW; Cellphones in Schools; New Literacies; DERT's Threshold Concept Map; Identity and A/r/tography; Literacy Education on PEI; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; METHODOLOGY AND METHODS; FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; 6. CELLPHILMS, TEACHERS, AND HIV AND AIDS EDUCATION: Revisiting Digital Voices Using the Framework of TPACK; INTRODUCTION; FRAMING TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNOLOGY: A CONSIDERATION OF TPACK.
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Subject Video recordings -- Production and direction.
Video recordings -- Production and direction.
Digital media -- Social aspects.
Digital media -- Social aspects.
Cell phones.
Cell phones.
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and culture.
Participant observation.
Participant observation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author MacEntee, Katie, editor.
Burkholder, Casey, editor.
Schwab-Cartas, Joshua, editor.
Other Form: Print version: What's a cellphilm? Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, [2016] 9463005714 (OCoLC)952447970
ISBN 9789463005739 (electronic book)
9463005730 (electronic book)
9463005714
9789463005715
9463005722
9789463005722
9789463005715
9789463005722
Standard No. 10.1007/978-94-6300-573-9