ABSTRACT

This volume celebrates cellphilm as an emerging Participatory Visual Method which effectively and powerfully engenders learning and catalyses social change.

The book outlines the method’s theoretical framework, the role of the educator and researcher, and ethical concerns of using this method, and critically explores issues which determine the production and dissemination of creative outputs. The authors demonstrate the emerging methodology of cellphilm and how it can be utilised from both pedagogical and methodological standpoints. Using examples of cellphilms created to understand social issues, this book illustrates how the method enables diverse populations to document their communities and realities using mobile devices.

By exploring cellphilm as a growing method in participatory visual research, the work fills an important gap in the fields of critically engaged community-based research, pedagogy and higher education for scholars and community activists.

chapter 2|14 pages

Cellphones and Cellphilms in the World

chapter 3|25 pages

Connecting to the Network

Theorising Cellphilm Method

chapter 4|22 pages

Dancing on the Balance Beam

Facilitating Cellphilm-Making

chapter 5|18 pages

Cellphilms as Pedagogy

chapter 6|18 pages

Cellphilm Ethics

chapter 7|17 pages

#Data

Framing Analysis in Cellphilm Method

chapter 8|22 pages

Going Viral

Cellphilm Dissemination

chapter 9|18 pages

Media Influencers

How Youth Are Transforming Cellphilm Method

chapter 10|21 pages

Mobilising the Network

Social Change and Future Directions