Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones

by Berry, Marsha; Schleser, Max

• ISBN13: 9781137482655
• ISBN10: 1137482656
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Summary

With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications ("apps"), the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. With the overlay of location-based services, these experiences and representations are providing new social, creative, and emotional cartographies. This collection discusses the prospects of the proliferation of mobile and digital filmmaking opportunities, from videographic citizen journalism to networked, transmedia collaborative filmmaking and photography, and the embedding of filmmaking and photography in social media practice. The contributors reflect on emergent creative practices as well as digital ethnographies of new visualities and socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life.

Author Biography

Marsha Berry is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
 

Max Schleser is Major Coordinator for Digital Media and Senior Lecturer in the College of Creative Arts at Massey University, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

1. Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play; Marsha Berry and Max Schleser
PART I: AESTHETICS
2. Artist with a Camera-phone: A Decade of Mobile Photography; Dean Keep
3. Tram Travels: Smartphone Video Production and the Essay Film; Leo Berkeley
4. The Mobile Phone and the Flow of Things; Adam Kossoff
PART II: SPACE AND PLACE
5. Ambient Play: Camera-phone Practices and Mobile Gaming; Larissa Hjorth
6. Filtered smartphone moments: Haunting places; Marsha Berry
7. Subversive Mobile Storytelling; Brian House
PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND STORIES
8. Sauti ya wakulima: Using Mobile Phones to Strengthen the Social Context of Rural Agriculture in Rural Tanzania; Eugenio Tisselli
9. Digital Storytelling and Aboriginal Young People: An Exploration of Digital Technology to Support Contemporary Koori Culture; Fran Edmonds
10. Smartphone Screenwriting: Creativity, Technology, and Screenplays-on-the-go; Craig Batty
PART IV: THE SELF
11. Instagram: A Repository of Taste, a Brimming Marketplace, a War of Eyeballs; Crystal Abidin
12. Slow Media Production and the Rise of Instagram Video; Patrick Kelly
13. I'm Doing This Right Now and It's for You: The Role of Images in Sexual Ambient Intimacy; Edgar Gómez Cruz and Cristina Miguel
14. Connecting through Mobile Autobiographies: Self-reflexive Mobile Filmmaking, Self-representation and Selfies; Max Schleser