Citizen Media and Practice Currents, Connections, Challenges Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media Series

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.

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

Index

Hilde C. Stephansen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster, London.

Emiliano Treré is Senior Lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University.