Bücher der Reihe Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multi-faceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.

Arranged into four thematic sections - public and journalistic media; performance and practice media; social and affective media - Mona Baker and Bolette Blaagaard's collection brings together scholars based in the UK, USA, Russia, Romania, Italy, Ireland, The Netherlands and Denmark, offering a wide range of diverse contributions to engage with different forms of citizen media. The areas of citizen media explored include: citizen journalism, amateur photography, graffiti, digital storytelling, blogging, tweeting, hacktivism, facebook, citizen theatre, nanodemonstrations; amateur subtitling and fansubbing; postcolonial cinema; online trolling.