What's a Cellphilm? : Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory Visual Research and Activism.

Intro -- What's a Cellphilm?: Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory Visual Research and Activism -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- What's a Cellphilm? An Introduction -- 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 -- 2. Smaller Lens, Bigger Picture: Exploring Self-Generated Cellphilms in Participatory Research -- 3. Living Our Language: Zapotec Elders and Youth Fostering Intergenerational Dialogue through Cellphone Videos -- 4. Remaining Anonymous: Using Participatory Arts-Based Methods with Migrant Women Workers in the Age of the Smartphone -- Part II: Cellphilming as Pedagogy -- 5. Student A/r/tographers Creating Cellphilms -- 6. Cellphilms, Teachers, and HIV and AIDS Education: Revisiting Digital Voices Using the Framework of TPACK -- 7. "Safe Injection and Needle Disposal Spaces for UBC! Now!" Collective Reflections on a Cellphilm Workshop -- Part III: Cellphilm Dissemination and Audiences -- 8. Facing Responses to Cellphilm Screenings of African Girlhood in Academic Presentations -- 9. We Are HK Too: Disseminating Cellphilms in a Participatory Archive -- Part IV: Cellphilm Technologies and Aesthetics -- 10. The Evolution of the Cellphone as Film and Video Camera -- 11. Visual Culture, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Cellphilming -- 12. Where Do We Go from Here? A Conclusion -- Index.

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.

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