Re-visioning Cellphilming Methodology: An Introduction

This introductory chapter to Re-visioning Cellphilming serves to orient the reader to the book as a whole. It starts by situating the book within the emerging body of literature on cellphilming, dating back to the work of two South African researchers, Jonathan Dockney and Keyan Tomaselli. It then goes on to offer what is termed ‘origin stories’ in which the four co-editors each write autoethnographically about how they came to be involved in cellphilming and how their cellphilm practices have changed over time. The third section maps out the three parts of the book, Storying Change Through Cellphilming; Technology in Change; and Cellphilm Pedagogies.