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by Max Schleser (Editor), Marsha Berry (Editor)
The participatory turn in media, arts and design along with interrelated developments in the proliferation of social and network media have changed our understanding of the contemporary mediascape. Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones reveals how smartphones and storytelling are forming a symbiosis that empowers twenty-first century citizens and creatives around the world. The edited collection further develops definitions and debate around creative mobile media and its impact on media, art and design. It brings together mobile artists, digital ethnographers, filmmakers working with smartphones, illustrators, screenwriters as well as musicians utilizing apps and mobile devices, who explore new directions in the creative arts with a focus on screen production. Lastly, it demonstrates how mobile devices and smartphones can make a difference in peoples' lives and catalyses creativity in order to tackle current socio-cultural issues.
Author Biography
Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and TV at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is a filmmaker who explores smartphones and mobile media for creative transformation and media production. His portfolio (www.schleser.nz) includes various mobile, smartphone and pocket camera films which are screened at film festivals, galleries and museums internationally.
Marsha Berry is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia. She is an ethnographer and artist whose practice includes video, participatory art and poetry. She is author of Creating with Mobile Media (Palgrave 2017), and has published over sixty journal articles and book chapters on the topics of mobile media, memory and place, and creative practice research.
