In contemporary media cultures, media are part of the most important sites where collective representations and narrations of a post-migrant civic culture are (re-)negotiated. At the same time, they offer powerful resources and instruments for civic participation and collaboration. Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming in the research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrant conditions 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 reshaping of civic culture in post-migrant societies.
Tanja Thomas, Professor in Media Studies, University of Tuebingen, Germany Merle-Marie Kruse, research fellow at the Institute of Media Studies, University of Tuebingen, Germany Miriam Stehling, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Media Studies, University of Tuebingen, Germany
List of Figures and Tables Foreword (Arjun Appadurai) Introduction (Merle-Marie Kruse, Miriam Stehling, and Tanja Thomas) Part I: Conceptual Perspectives on Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies 1 (Miriam Stehling, Tanja Thomas, and Merle-Marie Kruse) Media, Participation, and Collaboration in Post-Migrant Societies 2 (Peter Dahlgren) Immigrants, Social Media, and Participation: The Long and Winding Road via Integration 3 (Radha S. Hegde) Dangerous Precarity: Sexual Politics, Migrant Bodies, and the Limits of Participation Part II: Visibilities and Vulnerabilities of Refugees and Migrants in Media and Art 4 (Rafal Zaborowski) Between the Vulnerable and the Dangerous: Representations of Refugees in the British Press 5 (Brigitte Hipfl) Exploring Films' Potential for Convivial Civic Culture 6 (Katarzyna Marciniak) Art and Refugeeism: Speaking-with and Speaking-from-within Part III: Ambiguities and Contestation in Social Media 7 (Sina Arnold and Stephan Goerland) Participatory Logistics from Below: The Role of Smartphones for Syrian Refugees 8 (Anne Kaun and Julie Uldam) 'It Only Takes Two Minutes': The So-Called Migration Crisis and Facebook as Civic Infrastructure 9 (Fabian Virchow) Sentiment-Driven Demands and Scenarios for Political Participation in Nativist SNS Part IV: Voice and Agency of Marginalized Actors in Post-Migrant Societies 10 (Viktorija Ratkovic) From Niche to Mainstream? Post-Migrant Media Production as a Means of Fostering Participation 11 (Tanja Dreher and Poppy de Souza) Beyond Marginalized Voices: Listening as Participation in Multicultural Media 12 (Steffen Rudolph, Tanja Thomas, and Fabian Virchow) Doing Memory and Contentious Participation: Remembering the Victims of Right-Wing Violence in German Political Culture 13 (Nico Carpentier) Memorialization, Participation and Self-Representation: Remembering Refugeedom in the Cypriot Village of Dasaki Achnas Afterword (Nick Couldry) Bibliography About the Contributors
This edited volume is a welcomed contribution to the multidisciplinary crossing of media and migration studies as it explores two recently introduced terms - conviviality and post-migrant societies - from media studies perspectives. This book offers an exciting starting point to examine different local, national and diasporic contexts through the notion of post-migration, a discussion that has started in Germany. -- Karina Horsti, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyvaskyla
