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This is the first authoritative reference work to map the
multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and
practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of
scholarly areas. Citizen media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts
across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical
artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices
and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary
citizens produce as they participate in public life to effect
aesthetic or socio-political change. The seventy-seven entries
featured in this pioneering resource provide a rigorous overview of
extant scholarship, deliver a robust critique of key research
themes and anticipate new directions for research on a variety of
topics. Cross-references and recommended reading suggestions are
included at the end of each entry to allow scholars from different
disciplinary backgrounds to identify relevant connections across
diverse areas of citizen media scholarship and explore further
avenues of research. Featuring contributions by leading scholars
and supported by an international panel of consultant editors, the
Encyclopedia is essential reading for undergraduate and
postgraduate students as well as researchers in media studies,
social movement studies, performance studies, political science and
a variety of other disciplines across the humanities and social
sciences. It will also be of interest to non-academics involved in
activist movements and those working to effect change in various
areas of social life.
Luda, a photographer, and her two teenagers arrive in the Scottish
Northern Isles to make a new life. Everywhere the past shimmers to
the surface; the shifting landscapes and wild weather dominates;
the line between reality and the uncanny seems thin here. The
teenagers forge connections, making friends of neighbours,
discovering both longing and dangerous compulsions. But their
mother - fallible, obsessive, distracted - comes up hard against
suspicion. The persecution and violence that drove the island's
historic witch trials still simmers today, in isolated homes and
church buildings, and where folklore and fact intertwine. A
compelling and magically immersive novel about a family on the edge
and a community ensnared by history, that gathers to an
unforgettable ending.
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