1st Edition
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media
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 physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effect aesthetic or socio-political change. The seventy-seven entries featured in this pioneering resource provide a rigorous overview of extant scholarship, deliver a robust critique of key research themes and anticipate new directions for research on a variety of topics. Cross-references and recommended reading suggestions are included at the end of each entry to allow scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to identify relevant connections across diverse areas of citizen media scholarship and explore further avenues of research.
Featuring contributions by leading scholars and supported by an international panel of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in media studies, social movement studies, performance studies, political science and a variety of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. It will also be of interest to non-academics involved in activist movements and those working to effect change in various areas of social life.
Introduction
Activism Christina Neumayer
Amateur Karen Cross
Anthropology and citizen media Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
Archiving Jess Baines
Authenticity Lina Dencik
Autonomous movements Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Big data Stefania Milan
Citizen journalism Einar Thorsen
Citizen science Gwen Ottinger
Citizenship Engin Isin
Civil disobedience Ian Alan Paul
Civil society Manès Weisskircher
Commons Fruela Fernández
Community media Clemencia Rodríguez
Conflict & humanitarian studies and citizen media Derya Yüksek
Content moderation and volunteer participation Martin Johannes Riedl
Convergence Henry Jones
Co-optation Julia Rone
Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding Alexandra Reynolds
Culture jamming Vince Carducci
Digital storytelling Çiğdem Bozdağ and Sigrid Kannengießer
Direct action Benjamin Franks
Disability media Filippo Trevisan
Diversity Julie Boéri
Documentary film making Mark R. Westmoreland
Ethics of citizen media research Sandra Smeltzer
Facebook Zoetanya Sujon
Fandom Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
Film studies and citizen media Jens Eder and Britta Hartmann
Flash mobs Christian DuComb
Graffiti and street art Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Konstantinos Avramidis
Hacking and hacktivism Julia Rone
Hip-hop Christopher Vito
Hyperlocal media Jerome Turner and David Harte
Immaterial labour Dario Lolli
Indymedia Dorothy Kidd
Journalism studies and citizen media Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Media Marwan M. Kraidy
Media ecologies Emiliano Treré
Media event Evgenia Nim
Media practices Hilde C. Stephansen and Emiliano Treré
Mediatization Andreas Hepp
Migration studies and citizen media Moira Inghilleri
Mobile technologies Michael Daubs
Networks and networked society Dorismilda Flores-Márquez
Parkour Michael Atkinson and Kristina Smith
Performance studies and citizen media Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Philosophy and citizen media Omid Tofighian
Photography Karen Cross
Political science and citizen media Mette Marie Roslyng
Popular culture and citizen media Randa Aboubakr
Postcolonial studies and citizen media Bolette B. Blaagaard
Precarity Jacob Breslow
Prefiguration Marianne Maeckelbergh
Process vs. event Carlie D. Trott
Public sphere Petros Iosifidis
Publics (and networked publics) Elaine Yuan
Race & ethnicity studies and citizen media Gavan Titley
Remediation Owen Gallagher
Selfies Mette Mortensen
Self-mediation Katie Warfield
Social media Neil Sadler
Social movements studies and citizen media Tina Askanius
Solidarity Alex Khasnabish
Sousveillance Paul Reilly
Space and place Matilda Tudor
Subjectivity Aoileann Ní Mhurchú
Surveillance Arne Hintz
Temporality Anne Kaun
Twitter and hashtags Neil Sadler
User-generated content Melissa Wall
Video games Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen and Digdem Sezen
Weibo Eileen Le Han
Wikis Henry Jones
Witnessing/testimony Daniela Mansbach
World Social Forum Hilde C. Stephansen
YouTube Abigail Keating
Biography
Mona Baker is Professor Emerita of Translation Studies, University of Manchester, UK, and Director of the Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University. She is co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, author of Translation and Conflict (2006/ 2019), editor of Translating Dissent (2016) and co-editor of Citizen Media and Public Spaces (2016).
Bolette B. Blaagaard is Associate Professor of Communication at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on the intersections of culture and journalism with an emphasis on citizen media and postcoloniality. Blaagaard is the author of Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice (2018) and co-editor of Citizen Media and Public Spaces (2016).
Henry Jones is Lecturer in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, and co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network. He has published on translation practices in emerging online contexts, media theory and corpus-based methodologies.
Luis Pérez-González is Professor of Translation Studies and Co-director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is author of Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues (2014) and editor of The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation (2018).
A remarkably impressive achievement, this Encyclopedia represents a major step forward in the formalisation of this area of enquiry for researchers, journalists and civic activists alike. Entries are perceptively alert to why citizen media are vital for democracy, affording the reader an informed appreciation of key issues, concepts and debates while, at the same time, inspiring new points of engagement. An essential resource, it promises to enrich critical interventions for years to come.
Stuart Allan, Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK
Ordinary citizens everywhere enact and perform citizenship through media practices in their daily lives. In this timely volume, distinguished scholars from around the world analyze the key concepts and themes in the study of these citizen media practices. They map a dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship and point toward exciting new directions for future research.
Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
