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Bending Time through Participatory Video Methods: Reassembling Urban Kino-cinema with Young People
New Materialist Affirmations: creative research interventions in methods and practice, pp.61-88
Edinburgh University Press
2025
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Abstract
Current generations of young people are growing up in cities which are studded with digital technologies that sense, track, model and predict the temporal variations between moving bodies and urban infrastructures from moment to moment (Gabrys 2016). New sets of ethical and political complexities are emerging as cities incorporate predictive modelling of future events into their operational functioning, typically conforming with techno-capitalist values and imaginaries of the ‘smart city’ (Halpern et al. 2013; Rousell and Chan 2021). While these algorithmic temporalities are newly political (Parisi 2019), and cities are increasingly becoming environments of ubiquitous technical sensation (de Freitas et al. 2020), new materialist methods have the potential to empower young people to reclaim the digital capture of urban time, images and experience. This chapter takes up new materialist theories of cinema (Colman 2011; Keeling 2007; Kennedy 2002) and digital media (Fazi 2021; Gabrys 2016; Parisi 2019) to frame the development of participatory video methods with young people, drawing also on concepts from early twentieth-century urban cinema to inform our methodology (Deleuze 1986, 1988; Vertov 1984).
Details
- Title
- Bending Time through Participatory Video Methods: Reassembling Urban Kino-cinema with Young People
- Creators
- David Rousell - RMIT UniversityLaura Trafi-Prats - Manchester Metropolitan University School of EducationElizabeth de Freitas - MIXI, Adelphi University’s Manhattan Institute for Studies of STEM and the Imagination (New York)
- Contributors
- Anna Hickey-Moody (Editor) - Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Research InstituteSuvi Pihkala (Editor) - University of OuluGretchen Coombs (Editor) - University of South AustraliaMarissa Willcox (Editor) - University of Amsterdam
- Publication Details
- New Materialist Affirmations: creative research interventions in methods and practice, pp.61-88
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh
- Number of pages
- 28
- Identifiers
- 991013285422202368
- Copyright
- © the chapters their several authors, 2025
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter