Citizen media and public spaces : diverse expressions of citizenship and dissent Edited by Mona Baker and Bolette B. Blaagaard - London ; New York : Routledge, c2016. - xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Critical perspectives on citizen media .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes of co-optation and reverse co-optation, power and resistance, the ethics of witnessing and solidarity, and novel responses to the democratic deficit.

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