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Filtered Smartphone Moments: Haunting Places

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Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones

Abstract

People are endeavoring to capture more than an accurate depiction of what their eyes can see. Objects such as poems and photographs have become entangled in routine social interactions online. They are using faux-vintage filters on smartphone apps to go beyond visual sense to create a strong sense of place. The faux-vintage photography movement has strong resonances with the idea of hauntology, a concept coined by Derrida in Spectres de Marx (1993). This theoretical frame is used to situate this commonplace and creative practice within emergent socialities and visualities associated with social and mobile media. It is argued in this chapter that impulse to create and share a poetic and haunting image of a place can trigger social media smartphone camera moments.

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  1. Marsha Berry
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  1. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

    Marsha Berry

  2. Massey University, New Zealand

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Berry, M. (2014). Filtered Smartphone Moments: Haunting Places. In: Berry, M., Schleser, M. (eds) Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469816_6

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