Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Citizen voices. Alternative voices, alternative spaces: counterhegemonic discourse in the blogosphere / Deborah Gabriel -- Unlocking the gate? how NGOs mediate the voices of the marginalized in social media context / Glenda Cooper -- "I wouldn't be a victim when it comes to being heard": citizen journalism and civic inclusion / Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson and Ann Luce -- The voices of extremist violence: what can we hear? / Barry Richards -- Mediating margins. European media policy: why margins actually matter / Monika Metykova -- The rise of "creative diversity" in media policy / Sarita Malik -- Victims at the margins? a comparative analysis of the use of primary sources in reporting personal tragedy in Norway and the UK / Jackie Newton and Lene Brennodden -- Public service from the margins: a case study of diasporic media in the UK / Ola Ogunyemi -- Space and the migrant camps of Calais: space making at the margins / Anita Howarth and Yasmin Ibrahim -- Protests and power. Visibility of protest at the margins: the Thatcher funeral protests / Katy Parry -- "Pay your tax!" how tax avoidance became a prominent issue in the public sphere in the UK / Jen Birks and John Downey -- UGC in the newsroom: how BBC journalists' engagement with internet activists has altered newsroom practices / Lisette Johnston -- Police, protester, public: unsettling binaries in the public sphere / Pollyanna Ruiz -- Afterword / Stuart Allan.

This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change.