Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity

Susanne Foellmer holds a position as Reader of Dance at Coventry University/Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), UK. Her main research areas embrace aesthetic theory and concepts of the body in contemporary dance, performance, and in the Weimar Era, relationships between dance and ‘other’ media as well as temporality, historicity and politicality of performance. Since 2014 she has been directing the DFG research project On Remnants and Vestiges. Strategies of Remaining in the Performing Arts. She also has been working as a dramaturge and artistic councillor for Isabelle Schad, Meg Stuart, and Jeremy Wade among others.Margreth Lünenborg is Professor of Journalism Studies and Director of the Margherita-von-Brentano-Center for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She is editor of the book series Critical Studies in Media and Communication (transcript publishers) and member of the editorial boards of Feminist Media Studies and Media and Communication. Among her recent publications are Gender Media Studies. An Introduction (with Tanja Meier; in German, 2013) and a guest editorship (with Daniela Roventa-Frumusani) of a special issue of ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies on "How Does Gender Matter?" (2014).Christoph Raetzsch is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Communication and Culture of Aarhus University (Denmark). He was Vice Chair of the Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA 2014–2016 and his research has been published in international, peer-reviewed journals such as Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Tecnoscienza, Media History and the Journal of Computational Culture. He is also author of a monograph on the early works of Jean Baudrillard (2008) and co-editor of REAL—Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature States of Emergency—States of Crisis (2011).

• IntroductionSusanne Foellmer, Margreth Lünenborg, Christoph RaetzschMedia Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary ApproachesPart I: Framing Media Practices: Theoretical Perspectives1. From Public Sphere to Performative Publics: Developing Media Practice as an Analytic Model Margreth Lünenborg/ Christoph Raetzsch2. Reframing Modes of Resistance: Performing and Choreographing Protest Through Media PracticesSusanne Foellmer/ Matthias WarstatPart II: Approaching Media Practices: Mobilities – Movements – Interventions3. Mobilising the homeless? A proposal for the concept of banal mobilisationMaren Hartmann4. Gezi Uprising: Performative Democracy and Politics of the Body in an Extended Space of AppearanceGurur Ertem5.Mobilise, justify, accuse – the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood strategies in the context of changing media practicesCarola Richter6. The Mechanics of Signification – Making the Story of EmbrosGigu Argyropoulou/ Natascha Siouzouli7. "Narco Culture" and Media Practices: Negotiating Gender Identities in Contexts of ViolenceTeresa Orozco Martínez/ Martha Zapata Galindo8. Performing fragmented realities: Interventionist media practice by LIGNA, Rimini Protokoll and plan bPatrick Primavesi9. Succession or Cessation: The Challenge of New Media for the Japan-Korea Solidarity MovementMisook LeeAfterword: A precarious dance, a derivative socialityRandy Martin