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Immersed in the Digital: Networked Creativity through Mobile Content Production

Immersed in the Digital: Networked Creativity through Mobile Content Production. Helen Keegan University of Salford, UK ALT-C Nottingham, Sept 6-9 th 2010. Exploring. Mobile phone film-making as a way to challenge disciplinary assumptions, preparing learners for the professional world

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Immersed in the Digital: Networked Creativity through Mobile Content Production

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  1. Immersed in the Digital: Networked Creativity through Mobile Content Production Helen Keegan University of Salford, UK ALT-C Nottingham, Sept 6-9th 2010

  2. Exploring... • Mobile phone film-making as a way to challenge disciplinary assumptions, preparing learners for the professional world • Openness to rethinking practice in light of technological shifts • Development of a digital/networked mindset

  3. Generative constraints • “The secret to making digital flicks is recognizing that the small image size, low frame rate, and pixelatedartefacts are "generative constraints", rigid boundaries that evoke creative workarounds, like the restrictions a poet faces when composing a sonnet or haiku. • The constraints of web video should entice filmmakers to create new movies for a new medium. It's time digital flicks come of age.” • FLICKTIPS http://www.newvenue.com/flicktips/intro-index.html

  4. Research question How does a learning activity that requires students to switch roles and ‘technology genres’ (medium specificity), and challenges their core disciplinary assumptions, help them learn more about the practice of their discipline and the changing context in which they will practice?

  5. Sample films • FilmSoundFound • The Move • 8MP Desperados • From Busk til Dawn

  6. Learning through discontinuity • “When the new media replace or mix with traditional ones, a long established practice may be perturbed or even disrupted by the discontinuity.... the appearance of a new medium in a specific domain of practice, whatever conceptualization one may prefer to account for the phenomenon, is always a complex and dynamic event, involving a blend of discontinuity and continuity, disruption as well as construction” • LANZARA (2010) Remediation of practices: How new media change the ways we see and do things in practical domains First Monday Volume 15, Number 6 - 7 June 2010

  7. Creativity • 14/18 students expressed an appreciation for extended scope for creativity • “Creativity.. very loosely defined.. the term seems to serve different purposes for different users, while acting as a kind of ‘magic ingredient’ that is assumed to produce all sorts of transformative effects.” • David Buckingham (2003) Media Education, p.127

  8. Reflections • Epistemology of practice • What do we mean by technical competence? • Experiential learning and its relation to professional practice • Transition from education to industry

  9. Immersed in the Digital: Networked Creativity through Mobile Content Production Helen Keegan, University of Salford Twitter: @heloukee Blog: http://heloukee.wordpress.com ALT-C Nottingham, 6-9 Sept 2010

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