Book Review - Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges

Abstract

In Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges, editors Hilde C. Stephansen and Emiliano Treré (2020) bring together contributors to explore ways to further our thinking about media practices with a specific focus on citizen and activist media. The book is intended to stimulate dialogue among scholars in different fields and promote discussion and debate over media practice approaches between Anglophone and Latin American scholars.In his foreword, media scholar Nick Couldry (2020) welcomes this exciting collection for reconnecting recent research on media practice approaches in North America and Europe with its Latin American roots, while focusing on citizen media and developing a wide range of implications of the 'media as practice' paradigm.The 'practice' turn (Couldry 2004(Couldry , 2012 in media studies has inspired social movements and media scholars to develop more research on citizen and activist media in recent years.Stephansen and Treré (2020) open this collection by introducing 'media practice'