Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies

In contemporary media cultures, media are part of the most important sites where collective
representations and narrations of a postmigrant civic culture are (re)negotiated. At the
same time, they offer powerful resources and instruments for civic participation and collaboration.
Media and Participation in PostMigrant Societiesaddresses 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 postmigrant societies.

Tanja Thomas, Professor in Media Studies, University of Tuebingen, Germany

MerleMarie 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 Görland)
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 Ratkovi)
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