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This volume proposes “speaking up” and “talking back” as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces.Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, it highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial actors, groups, and collectives who recover the digital as a space for activist organizing and campaigning. In presenting a variety of sociocultural issues, such as gender violence, queer discrimination, or migrant hostility, the book centers empowerment practices in their digital forms, showcasing interventions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas—thereby critically examining the conditions for marginalized voices to speak up, talk back, and be heard in digital publics. In focusing on activist practices, formats, experiences, and scholarship, the contributions analyze many facets of digital feminist contention, including resistance storytelling, hashtag activism, grassroots journalism, or diaspora podcasting.This international and interdisciplinary volume will interest students and scholars of Media and Communication, Social Movements and Activism, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, and Race and Ethnicity.

This volume proposes “speaking up” and “talking back” as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces.Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, it highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial actors, groups, and collectives who recover the digital as a space for activist organizing and campaigning. In presenting a variety of sociocultural issues, such as gender violence, queer discrimination, or migrant hostility, the book centers empowerment practices in their digital forms, showcasing interventions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas—thereby critically examining the conditions for marginalized voices to speak up, talk back, and be heard in digital publics. In focusing on activist practices, formats, experiences, and scholarship, the contributions analyze many facets of digital feminist contention, including resistance storytelling, hashtag activism, grassroots journalism, or diaspora podcasting.This international and interdisciplinary volume will interest students and scholars of Media and Communication, Social Movements and Activism, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, and Race and Ethnicity.

In contemporary media cultures, media are part of the most important sites where collectiverepresentations and narrations of a post-migrant civic culture are (re-)negotiated. At thesame time, they offer powerful resources and instruments for civic participation and collaboration.Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming inthe research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrantconditions to the discussion – both as conceptual refinements and as empirical studies.The contributions of this book provide diverse analyses of the conditions, possibilities,but also constraints for participation and the role of media communication in the reshapingof civic culture in post-migrant societies.

In contemporary media cultures, media are part of the most important sites where collectiverepresentations and narrations of a post-migrant civic culture are (re-)negotiated. At thesame time, they offer powerful resources and instruments for civic participation and collaboration.Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming inthe research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrantconditions to the discussion – both as conceptual refinements and as empirical studies.The contributions of this book provide diverse analyses of the conditions, possibilities,but also constraints for participation and the role of media communication in the reshapingof civic culture in post-migrant societies.

Rechte Gewalt, die in der Bundesrepublik Anfang der 1990er Jahre Konjunktur hatte und in den letzten Jahren abermals stark angestiegen ist, ist bis heute nur äußerst lückenhaft aufgearbeitet und wird künstlerisch kaum erinnert.

Der vorliegende Band führt in einem doppelten Sinn in die ‚Schlüsselwerke’ der Cultural Studies mit einem Schwerpunkt auf ihren medienanalytischen Ansatz ein: Sein erster Teil stellt grundlegende theoretische Bezugsfelder anhand von Autoren vor, die für die Entwicklung der Cultural Studies zentral sind. Im zweiten Teil werden wesentliche Bereiche der Cultural Studies anhand der Werke zentraler Vertreterinnen und Vertreter dargestellt. Auf diese Weise eröffnet das Buch 'Schlüsselwerke der Cultural Studies' einen umfassenden Einstieg in diesen aktuellen und kritischen Zugang der Medien-, Kommunikations- und Kulturforschung.

Der vorliegende Band führt in einem doppelten Sinn in die ‚Schlüsselwerke’ der Cultural Studies mit einem Schwerpunkt auf ihren medienanalytischen Ansatz ein: Sein erster Teil stellt grundlegende theoretische Bezugsfelder anhand von Autoren vor, die für die Entwicklung der Cultural Studies zentral sind.