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.

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 Pérez-González

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

Mona Baker is Professor Emerita in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Translation and Conflict (2006) and In Other Words (2011) and editor or co-editor of numerous reference works, including Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (2009).

Bolette B. Blaagaard is Associate Professor of Communications at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the co-editor of Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (2012) with Sandra Ponzanesi, After Cosmopolitanism (2013) with Patrick Hanafin and Rosi Braidotti, and Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media (2014) with Lilie Chouliaraki.