Mobile Journalism workshop at the Broadcast Education Association

By Robb Montgomery

Here are the primary resources, frameworks, and digital repositories shared during our Saturday workshop exploring “The Journalist as Cultural Steward: Kinetic Ethnography and Mobile Storytelling”.

The Trust Graph A 19 year longitudinal visual ethnography and 40,000 word academic monograph documenting the structural collapse of twentieth century legacy media and the rise of a decentralized digital landscape. It provides a turnkey journalism survival blueprint for the age of Generative AI, demonstrating how practitioners can weaponize “Unvarnished Fallibility” and “Verified Translucency” as their ultimate competitive moats against synthetic perfection.

The Smart Film School An online academy and secure digital humanities repository offering certified training in mobile video storytelling. For university faculty, this portal acts as an institutional gateway unlocking the complete pedagogical sandbox, including the 44 minute academic master edit of the Breaking the News documentary, 39 unvarnished video interviews from the Montgomery Longitudinal Visual Archive, and proprietary grading rubrics.

Mobile Journalism (2026 University Edition) The definitive 6th edition university textbook distributed globally via VitalSource. Endorsed by leading faculty, this foundational text equips the next generation of practitioners with rigorous mobile reporting workflows, teaching them to utilize the smartphone as a specialized participatory camera for field reporting.

Bikegeist An interactive digital heritage project and virtual museum documenting Berlin’s urban cycling subculture. This project demonstrates the “See, Scan, Situate” pedagogical framework, utilizing the Polycam app and 3D photogrammetry to transform a standard smartphone into an anthropological scanner, successfully crossing street level reporting with spatial computing.

Stimulated Reality A peer reviewed ethnographic study and accompanying short documentary film investigating virtual intimacy and AI mediated companionship in the metaverse. Published in the Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology, this research utilizes a virtual reality headset as a documentary camera to explore how digital native generations navigate emotional connection, offering educators a blueprint for teaching spatial media preservation.

Additional Recommended Resources for Educators

Smartphone Video Storytelling My foundational 2018 textbook published by Taylor and Francis, providing a comprehensive guide to planning, shooting, and editing nonfiction narrative stories using mobile devices.