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What’s a Cellphilm? An Introduction

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What’s a Cellphilm?

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Dockney and Tomaselli (2009) coined the term cellphilm by combining two words—cellphone1 and film—to describe the combination of multiple communication technologies in one device. However, they admit that the ways in which individuals and communities have taken up the practice of making cellphilms has made it difficult to formulate a fixed definition of what constitutes a cellphilm.

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Macentee, K., Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. (2016). What’s a Cellphilm? An Introduction. In: MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. (eds) What’s a Cellphilm?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-573-9_1

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