Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary Approaches

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As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals’ engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world to argue that media change and social change converge on a redefinition of the relations of individuals to larger collective bodies. To this end, contributors examine new collective actors emerging in the public arena through digital media or established actors adjusting to a diversified communication environment. The book offers an important contribution to a vibrant, transdisciplinary, and international field of research emerging at the intersections of communication, performance and social movement studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Introduction: Media Practices, Social Movements and Performativity: Transdisciplinary Approaches PART I: Framing Media Practices: Theoretical Perspectives 1 From Public Sphere to Performative Publics: Developing Media Practice as an Analytic Model 2 Reframing Modes of Resistance: Performing and Choreographing Protest through Media Practices PART II: Approaching Media Practices: Mobilities – Movements – Interventions 3 Mobilising the Homeless? A Proposal for the Concept of Banal Mobilisation 4 Gezi Uprising: Performative Democracy and Politics of the Body in an Extended Space of Appearance 5 Mobilise, Justify, Accuse: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Changing Media Practices 6 The Mechanics of Signification: Making the Story of Embros 7 “Narco Culture” and Media Practices: Negotiating Gender Identities in Contexts of Violence 8 Performing Fragmented Realities: Interventionist Media Practice by LIGNA, Rimini Protokoll and plan b 9 Succession or Cessation: The Challenge of New Media for the Japan-Korea Solidarity Movement Afterword: A Precarious Dance, a Derivative Sociality Notes on Contributors Index