Augmented Fotonovelas

Abstract

Augmented Fotonovelas are a multi-modal new media object centering the knowledge of the Latina/o community in ways accessible and meaningful to multiple audiences by incorporating video interviews, photographs, interactive mapping, smart phone technology, and Augmented Reality (AR) to produce Augmented Scholarship. Augmented Fotonovelas are visual counter-stories highlighting the role of race along with other forms of subordination, focusing on lived experiences, and engaging Communities of Color as co-collaborators in a creative research process. They are pedagogical and social justice tools with the power to raise public consciousness, elicit community action, and social change.

From Community to Individual. Re-Thinking Photovoice Methodology for Education Research

“…Recent research studies tend to apply photovoice as both a research and pedagogical tool (Cook & Buck, 2010;Harkness & Stallworth, 2013;Hidalgo, 2015;Stroud, 2014). Mulder and Dull (2014) present a descriptive research to facilitate and assess self-reflection in master students and faculty staff through photovoice.…”

Promoting tangible and intangible hidden cultural heritage: local communities influencing civic decision-making and international cultural policy

“…In this sense adopting a multimodal approach is more likely to reveal hidden cultural heritage, as a both physical assets and intangible stories are explorable and remembering that these stories are not monocultural. Using digital tools in projects can open up new research avenues and provide rich information on the changing nature of places and assets both for the researcher and participants themselves (Murthy 2008;Houghton, Miller, and Foth 2013;Hidalgo 2015;Ozkul and Humphreys 2015), and also challenge the traditional notion of what constitutes heritage (Terras 2011). Heritage narratives, storylines and themes can be explored in more depth by using this multimodal model, avoiding the approach which risks favouring "sites before stories" as with traditional cultural heritage protection modes in national protection and designation registers (Pocock, Collett, and Baulch 2015, 963).…”

Novel Wayfinding: LitLabs and the Activism of Place

“…In LA Copperfield, the Fotonovela Edition, students produced augmented fotonovelas or photo-based comics that embed digital visualization technologies like mapping or AR, a method developed by Latinx digital humanist (and longtime classroom collaborator) Leigh-Anna Hidalgo in her scholarship and activism on urban labor in LA and beyond. 19 Each LA Copperfield fotonovela riffed on a passage I asked students to select, which they close-read and workshopped during the course of our study. In each volume of the series, students "relocated" Mudstone and Grimby, the road to Dover, London storefronts, even senior David's gravestone, onto South LA spaces.…”