Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes of co-optation and reverse co-optation, power and resistance, the ethics of witnessing and solidarity, and novel responses to the democratic deficit.Framed by a substantial introduction by the editors, the twelve contributions to the volume interrogate the concept of citizen media theoretically and empirically, and offer detailed case studies that extend from the UK to Russia and Bulgaria and from China to Denmark and the liminal spaces within which a growing number of refugees now live. A rich new domain of scholarship and practice emerges out of the studies presented. Citizen media is shown to embrace both physical and digital interventions in public space, as well as the sets of values and agendas that influence and drive the practices and discourses through which individuals and collectives position themselves within and in relation to society and participate in the creation of diverse publics. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in media and communication studies, particularly those studying citizen media, media and society, journalism and society, and political communication. Cover image: courtesy of Ruben Hamelink
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1. Reconceptualizing Citizen Media. A Preliminary Charting of a Complex DomainMona Baker & Bolette B. Blaagaard Part I Empowering Citizens2. Understanding Citizen Media as Practice: Agents, Processes, PublicsHilde Stephansen3. Frontiers of the Political: ‘Closed Sea’ and the Cinema of DiscontentSandra Ponzanesi4. Citizen Mediations of Connectivity: Narrowing the ‘Culture of Distance’ in Television News Bolette B. Blaagaard & Stuart AllanPart II Questions of Performance and Affect5. Theatricality and Gesture as Citizen Media: Composure on a PrecipiceJenny Hughes & Simon Parry6. Nanodemonstrations as Media Events: Networked Forms of the Russian Protest MovementEvgenia Nim7. The Politics of Affect in Activist Amateur Subtitling: A Biopolitical PerspectiveLuis Pérez-GonzálezPart III The Personal and the Political8. Media Participation and Desiring SubjectsSara Beretta9. Participatory Urbanism: Making the Stranger Familiar and the Familiar Strange Stine Ejsing-Duun10. Ironic ‘Resistance’ in Chinese Citizen Media OnlineAstrid NordinPart IV Processes of Appropriation: Whose Agenda?11. The Securitization of Citizen Reporting in Post-Arab Spring Conflicts Lilie Chouliaraki12. The People Formerly Known as the Oligarchy: The Cooptation of Citizen Journalism Julia Rone13. Memory, Guardianship and the Witnessing Amateur in the Emergence of Citizen Journalism Karen Cross
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"The research collected here takes the study of citizen media into new and productive areas. It is impressively interdisciplinary, drawing on scholarship in drama, translation studies, information technology and film to enhance the book's foundation in media and communications. Its studies of memory and witnessing provide fruitful ground for re-energising citizen media as a set of diverse, politicised practices that honour the particularities of place as much as they engage with questions of globalised space."Chris Atton, Professor of Media and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University"With the conceptually sharp and engaging introduction by Baker and Blaagaard and the insightful individual case studies that follow, this lively collection challenges prevailing notions about publics (and their spheres), citizens, and even media. It marks an innovative turning point in our efforts to understand the communicative practices and dynamics of democracy."Peter Dahlgren, Professor Emeritus of Media and Communication Studies, Lund University"Citizen Media and Public Spaces is a compelling and timely collection that explores how citizens find creative and tactical ways to use media and communication to express and enact political agency. The volume is a fascinating journey through raw video footage of a journalist’s death in Gaza; gestures of occupying, swarming, and dancing as political protest in Ferguson and Istanbul; nano-demonstrations in Russia, where toys and stuffed animals hold signs of protest, and many other forms of citizen media."Clemencia Rodríguez, Professor of Communication, University of Oklahoma
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781138847644
Publisert
2016-06-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
498 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
262

Biographical note

Mona Baker is Professor Emerita in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Translation and Conflict (2006) and In Other Words (2011) and editor or co-editor of numerous reference works, including Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (2009). Bolette B. Blaagaard is Associate Professor of Communications at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the co-editor of Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (2012) with Sandra Ponzanesi, After Cosmopolitanism (2013) with Patrick Hanafin and Rosi Braidotti, and Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media (2014) with Lilie Chouliaraki.