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Home Truths? Video Production and Domestic Life

David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett, and Maria Pini
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Over the past decade, the video camera has become a commonplace household technology. With falling prices on compact and easy-to-use cameras, as well as mobile phones and digital still cameras with video recording capabilities, access to moving image production technology is becoming virtually universal. Home Truths? represents one of the few academic research studies exploring this everyday, popular use of video production technology, looking particularly at how families use and engage with the technology and how it fits into the routines of everyday life.

The authors draw on interviews, observations, and the participants' videos themselves, seeking to paint a comprehensive picture of the role of video making in their everyday lives. While readers gain a sense of the individual characters involved in the project and the complexities and diversities of their lives, the analysis also raises a range of broader issues about the nature of learning and creativity, subjectivity and representation, and the "domestication" of technology---issues that are of interest to many in the fields of sociology and media/cultural studies.

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, and Director of the Institute's Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media.

Rebekah Willett is Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she teaches in Media, Culture and Communication.

Maria Pini previously worked as Lecturer in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, London University, and is now a researcher on the Camcorder Cultures project at the Institute of Education.

Cover art: Young videomaker ©iStockphoto.com/ kaisersosa67

Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

digitalculturebooks  is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

  • Cover
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Understanding Home Video
  • Chapter 2: Exploring the Home Mode: Researching Video Practices
  • Chapter 3: Domesticating Video
  • Chapter 4: The Subject of Video
  • Chapter 5: Learning Video: The Making of Media Literacy
  • Chapter 6: Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
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Published: 2011
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-07137-1 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-05137-3 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-90031-2 (open access)
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  • Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life
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  • Cultural Studies
  • Media Studies:New Media

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