Citizen Media and Public Spaces

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.

• 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

"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