The research question, data and topic

"Co-created mobile narratives" is a qualitative study on how a video created by several authors is constructed into a consumable medium and, potentially, into a narrative. My research proceeds from the basis of short, co-created mobile videos, their remixes and the narrative compilations born from these remixes. The aim is to study visual narratives co-created by a user community with the video cameras of mobile phones. I will explore the marginal conditions of narrativity and whether coherent stories can be produced out of the video material created by several users in a community. 

My study seeks answers to the questions of how people tell “mobile” stories using their phones and how a community creates narrative through mobile phones, using video. The questions are based on claims that people today are telling stories through social media and, also, visually – through images and videos.

In different projects and demos the aim was test how various narrative structures work in mobile video storytelling applications – first of all for creative projects. The special interest was in narratives made with the mobile phone and for the mobile phone i.e. they are supposed to be viewed on the mobile phone. The main research data consist of a set of test users videos and a remixes with predefined narrative structures

MoViE -http://movie.pori.tut.fi/

For the use of MSM project the platform in University Consortium of Pori, Finland we implemented a demo platform that enables users to create mobile narrations and stories using narrative structures. The implementation is based on video database (MySql), a set of interface scripts (php) and user interface design for Nokia Series 60 phones