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List of contents
Foreword by Nick Couldry
Chapter 1. Practice what you preach? Currents, connections, and challenges in theorizing citizen media and practice - Hilde C. Stephansen and Emiliano Treré
Part I. Latin American communication theory
Introduction by Clemencia Rodríguez
Chapter 2. The Latin American lo popular as a theory of communication: Ways of seeing communication practices - Omar Rincón and Amparo Marroquín
Chapter 3. Praxis in Latin American communication thought: A critical appraisal - Alejandro Barranquero
Chapter 4. Educommunication for social change: Contributions to the construction of a theory of activist media practices - Ángel Barbas
PART II. Activist agency and technological affordances
Introduction - Donatella Della Porta
Chapter 5. A genealogy of communicative affordances and activist self-mediation practices - Bart Cammaerts
Chapter 6. Time of protest: An archaeological perspective on media practices - Anne Kaun
PART III. Practice approaches to video activism
Introduction - Dorothy Kidd
Chapter 7. Video activism as technology, text, testimony – or practices? - Tina Askanius
Chapter 8. Activist media practices, alternative media and online digital traces: The case of YouTube in the Italian Se non ora, quando? movement - Alice Mattoni and Elena Pavan
PART IV. Acting on media
Introduction - Andreas Hepp
Chapter 9. Acting on media for sustainability - Sigrid Kannengießer
Chapter 10. Conceptualizing the role of knowledge in acting on media - Hilde C. Stephansen
PART V. Citizen data practices
Introduction - Helen Kennedy
Chapter 11. Acting on data(fication) - Stefania Milan
Chapter 12. Understanding citizen data practices from a feminist perspective: Embodiment and the ethics of care - Aristea Fotopoulou
Chapter 13. Situating practices in datafication – from above and below - Lina Dencik
Index
About the author
Hilde C. Stephansen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster, London.
Emiliano Treré is Senior Lecturer in Media Ecologies and Social Transformation in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University.
Summary
This groundbreaking collection advances understanding of the concept of media practices by critically interrogating its relevance for the study of citizen and activist media.
