Reconceptualizing citizen media: a preliminary charting of a complex domain -- Part I. Empowering citizens : Understanding citizen media as practice: agents, processes, publics -- Frontiers of the political: "closed sea" and the cinema of discontent -- Citizen mediations of connectivity: narrowing the "culture of distance" in television news -- Theatricality and gesture as citizen media: composure on a precipice -- Nanodemonstrations as media events : networked forms of the Russian protest movement -- The politics of affect in activist amateur subtitling : a biopolitical perspective -- Media participation and desiring subjects -- Participatory urbanism: making the stranger familiar and the familiar strange -- Ironic "resistance" in chinese citizen media online -- The securitization of citizen reporting in post-arab spring conflicts -- The people formerly known as the oligarchy: the cooptation of citizen journalism -- Memory, guardianship and the witnessing amateur in the emergence of citizen journalism

1. Citizen journalism -- Case studies
2. Local mass media -- Case studies
3. Citizenship -- Case studies
4. Mass media -- Social aspects -- Case studies