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What's a Cellphilm? [recurso electrónico] : Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory Visual Research and Activism by Burkholder, Casey;MacEntee, Katie;Schwab-Cartas, Joshua is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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,

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Author
Burkholder, Casey;MacEntee, Katie;Schwab-Cartas, Joshua
Publisher
SensePublishers : Imprint : SensePublishers
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9789463005715
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Education, Computer Science, Photography

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