Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to sketch the boundary line between today's amateur media practice and the cannons of professional media and film practice.

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is an Affiliated Lecturer in new and digital media at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Tutor at Clare Hall; and a member of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network and the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. She is the author of Visual Histories of South Asia (co-edited with Marcus Banks, 2017) and of British Women Amateur Filmmakers: National Memories and Global Identities (with Heather Norris Nicholson, 2018), and has written extensively on the theme of colonial amateur film practice and imperial studies. Motrescu-Mayes is also the founder of the Amateur Cinema Studies Network.

Susan Aasman is Associate Professor at the Media Studies Department and Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Groningen. Her field of expertise is in media history, with a particular interest in amateur film and documentaries, digital culture and digital archives, web history and digital history. She was a senior researcher in the research project 'Changing Platforms of Ritualised Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movie Making' (2012-2016). Together with Andreas Fickers and Jo Wachelder, Susan has co-edited Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs (2018).

Introduction

Chapter 1. From marginal to mainstream: a history of amateur media

Chapter 2. Everyday complexities and contradictions in contemporary amateur media

Chapter 3. The non-ephemeral amateur media and constructions of self

Chapter 4. The politics of ethical representation in amateur media

Chapter 5. Memory and amateur media's visual counter-histories

Chapter 6. Lost and found: amateur media in the archive

Afterword