Albuquerque, Paula2018-09-262018-09-262014https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/webcams-cinematic-medium-creating-chronotopes-real/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3322This article focuses on webcams as a cinematic medium. It proposes an approach to studying the specific affected ownership, temporality, and filmic potential of the webcam. The article begins by advancing a differentiation between CCTV and webcams. Next, it proposes a synthesis of the notions of cinematic time and network time to analyse the webcam’s real-time footage and conceptualise a third term: ‘realtime’. Furthermore, the article outlines the webcam’s potential to generate cinematic chronotopes owing to their specific form of temporality.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 GenericKünsteChronotoposRaumZeitFilmÜberwachungSpurwebcamartchronotopecinemasurveillancetraceswebcam79110.5117/NECSUS2014.1.ALBU10.25969/mediarep/151392213-0217