Citizen Media and Performance Studies
Book chapter
Chatzichristodoulou, M. (2018). Citizen Media and Performance Studies. in: Perez-Gonzalez, L, Blaagaard, B and Baker, M (ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media Abingdon-on-Thames Routledge.
Authors | Chatzichristodoulou, M. |
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Editors | Perez-Gonzalez, L, Blaagaard, B and Baker, M |
Abstract | The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media sets out to chart the territory of citizen media, a new, fast evolving disciplinary terrain. Citizen media is understood in the context of this project as the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive formations of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effect aesthetic or socio-political change. Pursuing an inclusive agenda, this understanding of citizen media encompasses such diverse forms of political and aesthetic intervention in public life as graffiti and other forms of street art, street performance, community theatre, rap and hip hop, community radio, citizen journalism, citizen photography, blogging, tweeting, documentary film making, hacktivism, fansubbing, and scanlation. As such it allows engagement with participatory cultures across the entire spectrum of a population, irrespective of their level of access to digital media. Citizen Media and Performance Studies This entry will examine a diverse range of performance practices that are, in some way, related to the notion of citizen media. As the connections between the two are emergent – and thus, to some extent, in the making – the entry will be led by current practice, adopting an empirical approach in the first instance. It will start by surveying contemporary performances that unfold within, intervene in or disrupt the public sphere, whether this is physical or digital. These could be street performances, activist/citizen actions, cyber-activist events, performance interventions, public forms of docu-dramas, performative gestures that disrupt quotidian happenings, and so on. |
Keywords | citizen media; performance studies; political theatre; gestural politics |
Year | 2018 |
Book title | Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | Abingdon-on-Thames |
Edition | 1 |
Series | Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media |
Publication dates | |
2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 13 Dec 2018 |
Accepted | 19 Jun 2018 |
Web address (URL) | http://citizenmediaseries.org/published_volumes/routledge-encyclopedia-of-citizen-media/ |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/86q8w
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