Marginality, Vulnerability, and Protest in Journalism and Media Practices

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Journalists covering “border children” mediate experiences of vulnerability and marginality, but, as freelance war correspondents, also experience profound degrees of vulnerability and marginality themselves. Moreover, vulnerable and marginal social groups—the unemployed in the Great Depression and participants in Occupy Wall Street—cultivate media practices in order to frame their experiences themselves. Much of such cultivation takes place in alternative media institutions. These papers examine fraught media practices, as well as the alternative institutions that often support them.

Sub Unit

• Philosophy, Theory and Critique

Chair

• Maria Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Individual Presentations

• Journalism and Embodied Vulnerability: Toward a Reparative Reading of Reportorial Practice - Meenakshi Gigi Durham, U of Iowa

• Examining the Figure of the Digital Freelancer in the Global “War on Terror” - Lindsay Palmer, UW Madison

• Theorizing Alternative Media: From Content and Structure to Ideology and Power - Sandra Jeppesen, Lakehead University Orillia

• Regimes of Time: Media Practices of the Dispossessed - Anne Kaun, Sodertorn U