Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones

1. Front Matter

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2. Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play

   1. Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play

      • Marsha Berry, Max Schleser

      Pages 1-9

3. Aesthetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 10-13

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   2. Artist with a Camera-Phone: A Decade of Mobile Photography

      • Dean Keep

      Pages 14-24

   3. Tram Travels: Smartphone Video Production and the Essay Film

      • Leo Berkeley

      Pages 25-34

   4. The Mobile Phone and the Flow of Things

      • Adam Kossoff

      Pages 35-44

4. Space and Place

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-47

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   2. Co-present and Ambient Play: A Case Study of Mobile Gaming

      • Larissa Hjorth

      Pages 48-57

   3. Filtered Smartphone Moments: Haunting Places

      • Marsha Berry

      Pages 58-67

   4. Subversive Mobile Storytelling

      • Brian House

      Pages 68-77

5. Knowledge and Stories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 78-81

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   2. Sauti ya Wakulima: Listening to the Voice of Tanzanian Farmers

      • Eugenio Tisselli

      Pages 82-91

   3. Digital Storytelling and Aboriginal Young People: An Exploration of Digital Technology to Support Contemporary Koori Culture

      • Fran Edmonds

      Pages 92-103

   4. Smartphone Screenwriting: Creativity, Technology, and Screenplays-on-the-Go

      • Craig Batty

      Pages 104-114

6. The Self

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-118

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   2. #In$tagLam: Instagram as a Repository of Taste, a Burgeoning Marketplace, a War of Eyeballs

      • Crystal Abidin

      Pages 119-128

   3. Slow Media Creation and the Rise of Instagram

      • Patrick Kelly

      Pages 129-138

   4. I’m Doing This Right Now and If’s for You. The Role of Images in Sexual Ambient Intimacy

      • Edgar Gómez Cruz, Cristina Miguel

      Pages 139-147

   5. Connecting through Mobile Autobiographies: Self-Reflexive Mobile Filmmaking, Self-Representation, and Selfies

      • Max Schleser

      Pages 148-158

7. Back Matter

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With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of new socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life.

• Creative mobile media
• mobile photography
• mobile filmmaking
• storytelling
• social media
• smartphone apps
• digital
• digital technology
• Gaming
• media
• video

• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

  Marsha Berry

• Massey University, New Zealand

  Max Schleser

Larissa Hjorth, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Crystal Abidin, University of Western Australia Eugenio Tisselli, University of Applied Arts, Switzerland Patrick Kelly, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Leo Berkeley, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Dean Keep, Swinburne University, Australia Edgar Gomez Cruz, University of Leeds, UK Adam Kossoff, University of Wolverhampton, UK Larissa Hjort, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Fran Edmonds, University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Batty, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Brian House, Brown University, USA Cristina Miguel, University of Leeds, UK

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