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What’s a Cellphilm?

Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory Visual Research and Activism

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Editors:
  1. Katie MacEntee

    1. McGill University, Canada

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  2. Casey Burkholder

    1. McGill University, Canada

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  3. Joshua Schwab-Cartas

    1. McGill University, Canada

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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    1. What’s a Cellphilm? An Introduction

      • Katie Macentee, Casey Burkholder, Joshua Schwab-Cartas
      Pages 1-15

  3. Cellphilms from the Professional to the Personal

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Poetry in a Pocket

      • Claudia Mitchell, Naydene De Lange, Relebohile Moletsane
      Pages 19-34

    3. Smaller Lens, Bigger Picture

      • Caitlin Watson, Shanade Barnabas, Keyan Tomaselli
      Pages 35-49

    4. Living Our Language

      • Joshua Schwab-Cartas
      Pages 51-65

    5. Remaining Anonymous

      • Vivian Wenli Lin
      Pages 67-83

  4. Cellphilming as Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Student A/R/Tographers Creating Cellphilms

      • Sean Wiebe, Claire Caseley Smith
      Pages 87-102

    3. Cellphilms, Teachers, and HIV and AIDS Education

      • Ashley Demartini, Claudia Mitchell
      Pages 103-118

    4. “Safe Injection and Needle Disposal Spaces for UBC! Now!” Collective Reflections on a Cellphilm Workshop

      • Bernard Chan, Bronson Chau, Diana Ihnatovych, Natalie Schembri
      Pages 119-134

  5. Cellphilm Dissemination and Audiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Facing Responses to Cellphilm Screenings of African Girlhood in Academic Presentations

      • Katie Macentee
      Pages 137-152

    3. We are HK Too

      • Casey Burkholder
      Pages 153-168

  6. Cellphilm Technologies and Aesthetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. The Evolution of the Cellphone as Film and Video Camera

      • Lukas Labacher
      Pages 171-181

    3. Visual Culture, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Cellphilming

      • April R. Mandrona
      Pages 183-198

    4. Where do We Go from Here? A Conclusion

      • Joshua Schwab-Cartas, Katie Macentee, Casey Burkholder
      Pages 199-209

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 211-219
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • McGill University, Canada

    Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder, Joshua Schwab-Cartas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What’s a Cellphilm?

  • Book Subtitle: Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory Visual Research and Activism

  • Editors: Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder, Joshua Schwab-Cartas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-573-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-573-9Published: 27 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 220

  • Topics: Education, general

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