[Commlist] New book: Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures. Film, Video, and Digital Media.

We are pleased to announce the publication of our co-authored book 
'Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures. Film, Video, and Digital 
Media' (Routledge, 2019), https://bit.ly/2GhEVyw (ISBN: 9781138226142. 
Also available in eBook).

'Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures' aims to define the boundary 
line between today’s amateur media practice and the canons of 
professional media and film practice. Identifying various feasible 
interpretative frameworks, from historical to anthropological 
perspectives, the volume proposes a critical language able to cope with 
amateur and new media’s rapid technological and interpretative 
developments. Conscious of the fact that amateur media continue to be 
seen as the benchmark of visual records of authentic rather than 
mass-media-derived events, we paid particular attention to the ways in 
which diverse sets of concepts of amateur media have now merged across 
global visual narratives and everyday communication protocols. Building 
on key research questions and content analysis in media and 
communication studies, we have assessed differences between professional 
and amateur media productions based on the ways in which the 
‘originators’ of an image have been influenced by, or have challenged, 
their context of production. It is our hope that the book’s methodical 
and interdisciplinary approach provides valuable insights into the ways 
in which visual priming, cultural experiences and memory-building are 
currently shaped, stored and redistributed across new media technologies 
and visual networks.

Reviews:
‘This fiercely original book widens amateur media cartographies by 
recalibrating with interdisciplinary methodologies, global visualities, 
and participatory media platforms. It insists amateurism is not 
marginal, but ubiquitous as its variegated practices migrate across 
histories, ethics, counter-histories, archives, technologies. A 
massively significant, daring, rigorous, and field-changing intervention 
into amateur media studies.’ Patricia R. Zimmermann, Professor of Screen 
Studies, Ithaca College, USA

‘As one of the founders of this new field of research, I can vouch that 
we’ve been all waiting for this type of book on amateur media. The 
authors have carefully considered the last decades of research done on 
the theme of amateur media practice, from home movie making to digital 
and online productions, and raised pertinent theoretical issues as well 
as opened new research avenues. A timely and important book.’ Professor 
Roger Odin, Emeritus Professor of Information Sciences and Communication 
at Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle.

 Authors:
Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is Visiting 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 and of 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).




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