CREATING WITH MOBILE MEDIA

Description

This book investigates the convergence between locative, mobile and social media in order to show how people use mobile media for their creative practice—creative writing, photography, video and filmmaking. The central thematic focus of this book explores how mobile media has created new opportunities and contexts for creative practitioners. It draws together creative practice research with non-representational theory and digital ethnography to provide a fresh perspective on the place mobile media has in our everyday creative lives. Fictionalized and semi-fictional vignettes are used to present empirical material taken from fieldnotes and interviews to demonstrate how new forms and genres of art making have arisen because of the affordances of mobile media. The chapters in this volume have been arranged into a sequence according to the kinds of actions that make up various creative practices. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Creative Practice Meets Ethnography (Marsha Berry)....Pages 1-24 Playing with Visual Vernaculars (Marsha Berry)....Pages 25-43 Performing Selfies with Smartphones (Marsha Berry)....Pages 45-64 ‘Being There’ with Smartphone Apps (Marsha Berry)....Pages 65-85 Improvising and Collaborating Creatively with Social Media (Marsha Berry)....Pages 87-108 Evoking Narrative Landscapes with Mobile Media (Marsha Berry)....Pages 109-129 Making Films and Video Art with Smartphones (Marsha Berry)....Pages 131-151 Looking over Mobile Media, Creative Practice and Ethnography (Marsha Berry)....Pages 153-166 Back Matter ....Pages 167-172