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