Description
This groundbreaking collection advances understanding of the concept of media practices by critically interrogating its relevance for the study of citizen and activist media.
Media as practice has emerged as a powerful approach to understanding the media’s significance in contemporary society. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in sociology, media and communication, social movement and critical data studies, this book stimulates dialogue across previously separate traditions of research on citizen and activist media practices and stakes out future directions for research in this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. Framed by a foreword by Nick Couldry and a substantial introductory chapter by the editors, contributions to the volume trace the roots and appropriations of the concept of media practice in Latin American communication theory; reflect on the relationship between activist agency and technological affordances; explore the relevance of the media practice approach for the study of media activism, including activism that takes media as its central object of struggle; and demonstrate the significance of the media practice approach for understanding processes of mediatization and datafication.
Offering both a comprehensive introduction to scholarship on citizen media and practice and a cutting-edge exploration of a novel theoretical framework, the book is ideal for students and experienced scholars alike.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Nick Couldry
Chapter 1. Practice what you preach? Currents, connections, and challenges in theorizing citizen media and practice - Hilde C. Stephansen and Emiliano Treré
Part I. Latin American communication theory
Introduction by Clemencia Rodríguez
Chapter 2. The Latin American lo popular as a theory of communication: Ways of seeing communication practices - Omar Rincón and Amparo Marroquín
Chapter 3. Praxis in Latin American communication thought: A critical appraisal - Alejandro Barranquero
Chapter 4. Educommunication for social change: Contributions to the construction of a theory of activist media practices - Ángel Barbas
PART II. Activist agency and technological affordances
Introduction - Donatella Della Porta
Chapter 5. A genealogy of communicative affordances and activist self-mediation practices - Bart Cammaerts
Chapter 6. Time of protest: An archaeological perspective on media practices - Anne Kaun
PART III. Practice approaches to video activism
Introduction - Dorothy Kidd
Chapter 7. Video activism as technology, text, testimony – or practices? - Tina Askanius
Chapter 8. Activist media practices, alternative media and online digital traces: The case of YouTube in the Italian Se non ora, quando? movement - Alice Mattoni and Elena Pavan
PART IV. Acting on media
Introduction - Andreas Hepp
Chapter 9. Acting on media for sustainability - Sigrid Kannengießer
Chapter 10. Conceptualizing the role of knowledge in acting on media - Hilde C. Stephansen
PART V. Citizen data practices
Introduction - Helen Kennedy
Chapter 11. Acting on data(fication) - Stefania Milan
Chapter 12. Understanding citizen data practices from a feminist perspective: Embodiment and the ethics of care - Aristea Fotopoulou
Chapter 13. Situating practices in datafication – from above and below - Lina Dencik
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