Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media engages with the complexity and diversity of citizen media, a young yet already established academic field located at the interface between different disciplines including media studies, sociology, translation studies, performance studies, political science, visual studies, and journalism studies. The series emphasises the importance of citizen media in the collective transformation of the public sphere, paying special attention to issues such as participation, witnessing, resistance, collaboration, creativity, and affect, among many others. Titles in the series are focused on high-quality, inclusive, and original research, in the form of monographs and edited collections, made accessible for a wide range of readers. The series editors particularly welcome proposals that challenge disciplinary boundaries to advance and refine contemporary definitions of citizen media.
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By Mona Baker, Bolette B. Blaagaard, Henry Jones, Luis Pérez-González
May 27, 2024
This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas. Citizen media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the ...
By Fruela Fernández
August 01, 2022
Translating the Crisis discusses the multiple translation practices that shaped the 15M movement, also known as the indignados (‘outraged’), a series of mass demonstrations and occupations of squares that took place across Spain in 2011 and which played a central role in the recent global wave of ...
By Neil Sadler
July 29, 2021
With the rise and rise of social media, today’s communication practices are significantly different from those of even the recent past. A key change has been a shift to very small units, exemplified by Twitter and its strict 280-character limit on individual posts. Consequently, highly fragmented ...
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By Hilde Stephansen, Emiliano Treré
November 12, 2019
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. ...
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By Mona Baker, Bolette B. Blaagaard
June 07, 2016
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 ...
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By Mona Baker
November 23, 2015
*Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016!* Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian ...