Home truths? video production and domestic life

Over the past decade, the video camera has become a commonplace household technology. With falling prices on compact and easy-to-use cameras, as well as mobile phones and digital still cameras with video recording capabilities, access to moving image production technology is becoming virtually unive...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Buckingham, David author (author), Pini, Maria contributor (contributor), Willett, Rebekah contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2011
2011
Colección:Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life
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Sumario:Over the past decade, the video camera has become a commonplace household technology. With falling prices on compact and easy-to-use cameras, as well as mobile phones and digital still cameras with video recording capabilities, access to moving image production technology is becoming virtually universal. Home Truths? represents one of the few academic research studies exploring this everyday, popular use of video production technology, looking particularly at how families use and engage with the technology and how it fits into the routines of everyday life.The authors draw on interviews, observations, and the participants' videos themselves, seeking to paint a comprehensive picture of the role of video making in their everyday lives. While readers gain a sense of the individual characters involved in the project and the complexities and diversities of their lives, the analysis also raises a range of broader issues about the nature of learning and creativity, subjectivity and representation, and the "domestication" of technology---issues that are of interest to many in the fields of sociology and media/cultural studies.
Notas:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Descripción Física:1 online resource (162 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780472900312
9780472051373
9780472071371