Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice (eBook)

Postcolonial Archives and Embodied Political Acts of New Media

Bolette B. Blaagaard (Autor)

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2018
144 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-109-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Provides a conceptualisation of citizen journalism as a political practice developed through analyses of an historical and postcolonial case.

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Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice provides a conceptualization of citizen journalism as a political practice developed through analyses of an historical and postcolonial case. Arguing that citizen journalism is first and foremost situated, embodied and political rather than networked and technology-based, the book offers a grounded analysis of the colonial newspaper, The Herald, published in St. Croix (Virgin Islands) 1915-25 by a descendant of enslaved people and independently of the colonial ruler, Denmark. The analysis is informed by Deleuze and Guattari's approach to knowledge production and formulates a critical reading of citizens' and subjects' mediated political engagements then as well as now. The book discusses current approaches to citizen journalism before turning to The Herald, which is then read against the grain in an attempt to show the embodied politics of colonial history and cultural forms of citizen engagement as these politics evolve in this particular case of journalism

Autor

lt;span>Bolette B. Blaagaard is Associate Professor of Communications at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the co– editor of Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (2012), After Cosmopolitanism (2013), Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere: Postsecular Publics (2014), among others.

Inhalt

1. Shifting Perspectives: Understanding Citizen Journalism Through a “Politics of Location” / 2. Deconstructing the Citizen Journalist / 3. Political Citizen Journalism: Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship in the Colonies / 4. Embodied Citizen Journalism: Archives and Postcolonial Memory / 5. Citizen Journalism and the Politics of Visibility / 6. Conclusions: Citizen Journalism as an Act for Transformation / Bibliography / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: citizen journalism • Deleuze • Guattari • Media Studies • political communication • Political Philosophy • Postcolonial • The Herald
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-109-5 / 1786601095
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-109-4 / 9781786601094