We are living in a moment where new types of visuality and vernaculars are emerging. For
many of us sharing of objects such as photos and video has become a part of our daily …

Our ability to play with smartphone camera apps and share our moving images with location-
based overlays is giving rise to new opportunities. Smartphone cameras can no longer be …

From Barbie dolls capable of recording video through to tablet computers and smartphones
with cameras, portable digital media devices are arguably changing our relationship with …

Smartphones are part of a convergence culture that is reconfiguring our relationship with
media and arguably shifting our understanding of documentary practices. Smartphones may …

This thesis unpacks the skew towards white Western outlooks in mainstream discourse,
science communication, media, and cinematic stories about science and technology and …

A new kind of film has come into being, meant to be viewed on a smartphone: lowresolution,
ultrashort, and often anonymous. The distribution of these ultrashort videos has become a …

Abstract “Being there” in the field is a fundamental concept in ethnography according to
Clifford Geertz. In this chapter, I propose that we imagine and reimagine places and events …

Mobile media remixes and remediates old and new media (Bolter and Grushin 1999) to
generate new forms, which quickly transform into visual vernaculars. The proliferation of …