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 Perez-Gonzalez

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