[Commlist] new book: Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media

The editors are very excited to announce that The Routledge Encyclopedia 
of Citizen Media is now available for pre-order.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Encyclopedia-of-Citizen-Media/Baker-Blaagaard-Jones-Perez-Gonzalez/p/book/9781138665569

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted 
and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating 
insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.

Citizen media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of 
disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, 
performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of 
affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate 
in public life to effect aesthetic or socio-political change.

The seventy-seven entries featured in this pioneering resource provide a 
rigorous overview of extant scholarship, deliver a robust critique of 
key research themes and anticipate new directions for research on a 
variety of topics. Cross-references and recommended reading suggestions 
are included at the end of each entry to allow scholars from different 
disciplinary backgrounds to identify relevant connections across diverse 
areas of citizen media scholarship and explore further avenues of research.

Featuring contributions by leading scholars and supported by an 
international panel of consultant editors, the /Encyclopedia /is 
essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as 
researchers in media studies, social movement studies, performance 
studies, political science and a variety of other disciplines across the 
humanities and social sciences. It will also be of interest to 
non-academics involved in activist movements and those working to effect 
change in various areas of social life.

Edited by Mona Baker, Bolette B. Blaagaard, Henry Jones  and Luis 
Pérez-González as part of the book series /Critical Perspectives on 
Citizen Media/.

Reviews

A remarkably impressive achievement, this Encyclopedia represents a 
major step forward in the formalisation of this area of enquiry for 
researchers, journalists and civic activists alike. Entries are 
perceptively alert to why citizen media are vital for democracy, 
affording the reader an informed appreciation of key issues, concepts 
and debates while, at the same time, inspiring new points of engagement. 
An essential resource, it promises to enrich critical interventions for 
years to come.

Stuart Allan, Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and 
Culture at Cardiff University

Ordinary citizens everywhere enact and perform citizenship through media 
practices in their daily lives. In this timely volume, distinguished 
scholars from around the world analyze the key concepts and themes in 
the study of these citizen media practices. They map a dynamic field of 
interdisciplinary scholarship and point toward exciting new directions 
for future research.

Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, 
University of Pennsylvania

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