Full Description
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
Contents
1. Reconceptualizing Citizen Media. A Preliminary Charting of a Complex Domain
Mona Baker & Bolette B. Blaagaard
Part I Empowering Citizens
2. Understanding Citizen Media as Practice: Agents, Processes, Publics
Hilde Stephansen
3. Frontiers of the Political: 'Closed Sea' and the Cinema of Discontent
Sandra Ponzanesi
4. Citizen Mediations of Connectivity: Narrowing the 'Culture of Distance' in Television News
Bolette B. Blaagaard & Stuart Allan
Part II Questions of Performance and Affect
5. Theatricality and Gesture as Citizen Media: Composure on a Precipice
Jenny Hughes & Simon Parry
6. Nanodemonstrations as Media Events: Networked Forms of the Russian Protest Movement
Evgenia Nim
7. The Politics of Affect in Activist Amateur Subtitling: A Biopolitical Perspective
Luis Pérez-González
Part III The Personal and the Political
8. Media Participation and Desiring Subjects
Sara Beretta
9. Participatory Urbanism: Making the Stranger Familiar and the Familiar Strange
Stine Ejsing-Duun
10. Ironic 'Resistance' in Chinese Citizen Media Online
Astrid Nordin
Part IV Processes of Appropriation: Whose Agenda?
11. The Securitization of Citizen Reporting in Post-Arab Spring Conflicts
Lilie Chouliaraki
12. The People Formerly Known as the Oligarchy: The Cooptation of Citizen Journalism
Julia Rone
13. Memory, Guardianship and the Witnessing Amateur in the Emergence of Citizen Journalism
Karen Cross
