Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice: Postcolonial Archives and Embodied Political Acts of New Media (Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics) - Softcover

Blaagaard, Bolette B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786601087 ISBN 13: 9781786601087

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice provides a conceptualization of citizen journalism as a political practice developed through analyses of an historical and postcolonial case. Arguing that citizen journalism is first and foremost situated, embodied and political rather than networked and technology-based, the book offers a grounded analysis of the colonial newspaper, The Herald, published in St. Croix (Virgin Islands) 1915-25 by a descendant of enslaved people and independently of the colonial ruler, Denmark.

The analysis is informed by Deleuze and Guattari’s approach to knowledge production and formulates a critical reading of citizens’ and subjects’ mediated political engagements then as well as now. The book discusses current approaches to citizen journalism before turning to The Herald, which is then read against the grain in an attempt to show the embodied politics of colonial history and cultural forms of citizen engagement as these politics evolve in this particular case of journalism

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About the Author

Bolette B. Blaagaard is Associate Professor of Communications at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is the co– editor of Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (2012), After Cosmopolitanism (2013), Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere: Postsecular Publics (2014), among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786601087
• ISBN 13: 9781786601087
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144