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INTERACTIVE DIGITAL FOTONOVELAS: COMMUNITY ENGAGED RESEARCH
LeighAnna Hidalgo
UCLA’s Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies
NACCS – Salt Lake City, Utah
April 10th, 2014
Overview
What is a Fotonovela
History of Fotonovelas
Geneology of Augmented Fotonovelas
Augmented Fotonovelas in Community
Engaged Research
1. What is a Fotonovela
• In 1940s, designed as tactile representations of correlated movies.
• In Spain, Italy Portugal, Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
• Photographs, text, and dialogue bubbles.
2. Fotonovelas in Latin America
• In 1960s, 23 movies were featured in fotonovelas, while 3 times that were based on original content
• In 1980s, 70 million fotonovelas published in Mexico per month.
• 3 types emerge:• Novelas rosas
• Novelas suaves
• Novelas verdes
3.Fotonovelas in the U.S.
Scholars& Community Organizers have noted potential of fotonovelas for:
Public health interventions
• Familiar to Spanish-speaking immigrants
Literacy and research
• Accessible to populations with low literacy levels
NDLON
• Informing migrant workers about their rights
Liberatory social interventions
Preface: Augmented Fotonovelas are
grounded in my “cultural intuition:
1. one’s personal experience,
2. the existing literature
3. one’s professional experience
4. and the analytical research process itself(Delgado Bernal, 1998, p.563).
Chicana Feminist
Epistemology
4. Professional and Personal Experiences
Undergraduate Researcher
South Phoenix Research Collective
Moments Before Engaging in Non-
violent Civil Disobedience when SB
1070 passed
5. “Predatory Financial, Legal, and Political Landscapes in Phoenix, Arizona”
Augmented FotonovelasBringing the fotonovela into the digital age:
• Video ethnographies
• Increasing access
• Multi-modal-online and print
• Augmented reality and smartphones
6. Video of Augmented Reality
7. Theoretical Lens and Methodology
Augmented Fotonovelas
Epistemelogical Framework: Chicana
Feminist Epistemology
Academic Discipline: Chicana/o Studies
Conceptual Framework: Community Cultural
Development
Theoretical Framework: Critical Race Theory in
Educaiton
Conceptual Framework: Critical Race Spatial Analysis
Academic Discipline: Visual Anthropology
“El Plan de Santa Barbara” (1969)
• Outlines Chicanos commitment to the community:
• Research programs
• Publication programs
• Community cultural and social action centers
Community Engaged
Research
8. “L@s Desaparecid@s”
9. “Strategies of Sobresaliendo”
10. “Casos de Justicia: Campaña Para Legalizar la Venta Ambulante”
11. Concluding Remarks
Augmented Fotonovelas
Disseminate asset-based counter-narratives celebrating Latina/o communities without sanitizing their realities.
center the role of race along with other forms of subordination and engage communities as co-collaborators in the research and artistic processes (Delgado Bernal & Solórzano, 2001).
visual counter-stories contesting dominant narratives about marginalized populations in ways accessible and meaningful in the everyday lives of Communities of Color (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002).