Here is a short selection of texts that has inspired our work.
Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari/ Pantti, M. (Hg.) (2011): Amateur Images and Global News. Bristol u. a.: Intellect Books.

Biekart, Kees / Fowler, Alan (2013): Transforming Activisms 2010: Exploring Ways and Waves. In: Development and Change 44(3), 527–546.

Brukow, Dagmar (2011): Before YouTube and Indymedia: Cultural memory and the archive of video collectives in germany in the 1970s and 1980s. In: Studies in European Cinema, 8(3), 171-181, DOI: 10.1386/seci.8.3.171_1.

Carpentier, Nico (2011): The concept of participation. If they have access and interact, do they really participate? In: CM, Communication Management Quarterly/Casopis za upravljanje  komuniciranjem, 21, 13-36.

Castells, Manuel (2012): Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. Cambridge: Polity.

Chadwick, Andrew (2013): The Hybrid Media System. Politics and Power. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Coleman, Renita (2010): Framing the Pictures in Our Heads. In: D’Angelo, Paul /Kuypers, Jim A. (Hg.): Doing News Framing Analysis. Empirical, Theoretical, and Normative Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 233-261.

Cottle, Simon (2006): Mediatized Conflict. Maidenhead, New York: Open University Press.

Doerr, Nicole/ Mattoni, Alice/ Teune, Simon (2015): Toward a Visual Analysis of Social Movements, Conflict, and Political Mobilization. In: dies. (Hg.): Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements. Emerald Group (research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 35), XI–XXVI. DOI: 10.1108/S0163-786X(2013)0000035004.

Eder, Jens/ Klonk, Charlotte (Hg.) (2016): Image Operations. Visual Media and Political Conflict. Manchester: Manchester UP.

Fahlenbrach, Kathrin/ Klimke, Martin/ Scharloth, Joachim (Hg.) (2016): Protest Cultures. A Companion. Oxford, New York: Berghahn.

Fraas, Claudia/ Meier, Stefan/ Pentzold, Christian (Hg.) (2014): Online-Diskurse. Theorien und Methoden transmedialer Online-Diskursforschung. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (Neue Schriften zur Online-Forschung).

Fuchs, Christian (2014): Occupy Media! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism. Alresford: Zero Books.

Gerbaudo, Paolo (2012): Tweets in the Streets. Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London: Pluto.

Gladwell, Malcolm (2010): Small Change. Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted. In: The New Yorker, 04.10.2010, 42-49.

Grabe, Maria Elizabeth/  Page Bucy, Erik (2009): Image Bite Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hesling, Willem (1989): Documentary Film and Rhetorical Analysis. In: de Greef, Willem/ Hesling, Willem (Hg.): Image-Reality-Spectator. Leuven: Acco, 101–131.

Hill, Symon (2013): Digital Revolutions. Activism in the Internet Age. Oxford: New Internationalist.

Holert, Tom (2008): Regieren im Bildraum. Berlin: Polypen.

Isermann, H. (2015): Digitale Augenzeugen. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.

Ivakhiv, Adrian J. (2013): Ecologies of the Moving Image. Cinema, Affect, Nature. Waterloo: WLU Press.

Karatzogianni, Athina (Hg.) (2012): The Politics of Cyberconflict. New York: Routledge.

Knape, Joachim/ Ulrich, Anne (Hg.) (2012): Fernsehbilder im Ausnahmezustand. Zur Rhetorik des Televisuellen in Krieg und Krise. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag (Neue Rhetorik, 11).

Meier, Stefan (2008): (Bild-)Diskurs im Netz. Köln: Halem.

Lievrouw, Leah (2013): Alternative and Activist New Media. Oxford: Wiley (DMS – Digital Media and Society).

Mason, Paul (2013): Why it’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere. The New Global Revolutions, London, New York: Verso.

McCaughey, Martha (Hg.) (2014): Cyberactivism on the participatory web. New York u.a.: Routledge (Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture, 18).

Meis, Mareike (2014): Protest per Handycam. Die Grüne Bewegung im Iran. Marburg: Tectum.

Morozov, Evgeny (2011): The Net Delusion. The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, New York: Public Affairs 2011.

Mortensen, M. (2014): Journalism and Eyewitness Images. Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict (Vol. 8). New York u.a.: Routledge.

Münker, Stefan (2009): Emergenz digitaler Öffentlichkeiten. Die Sozialen Medien im Web 2.0. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.

Nestler, Sebastian (2014): Kommunikations-Guerilla als Aneignungskunst und politischer Aktivismus aus der Perspektive der Cultural Studies. In: Helbig, Jörg/ Rußegger, Arno/Winter, Rainer (Hg.): Visualität, Kultur und Gesellschaft. Köln: Halem, 36-52.

Neumayer, C./ Svensson, J. (2016): Activism and radical politics in the digital age. Towards a typology. In: Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 22 (2), 131–146. DOI: 10.1177/1354856514553395.

Purcell, Kristen (2013): Online Video 2013. PewResearchCenter. https://www.pewinternet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/media/Files/Reports/2013/PIP_Online-Video-2013.pdf, last access 22.05.2016.

Reed, T.V. (2014): Digitized Lives. Culture, Power, and Social Change in the Internet Era. New York: Routledge.

Roger, Nathan (2013): Image Warfare in the War on Terror. Basingstoke England: Palgrave MacMillan (New security challenges).

Rossi, Luca/ Boccia Artieri, Giovanni (2014): Cyberprotest. Protest in the Digital Age. In: Fahlenbrach, Kathrin/ Sivertsen, Erling/ Werenskjold, Rolf (Hg.):  Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present. New York: Berghahn, 336–350.

Rucht, Dieter (2014): Changes of Protest Groups’ Media Strategies from a Long-Term Perspective. In: Fahlenbrach, Kathrin/ Sivertsen, Erling/ Werenskjold, Rolf (Hg.):  Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present. New York: Berghahn, 19–40.

Sauter, Molly (2014): The Coming Swarm. DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet. New York, London: Bloomsbury.

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Shirky, Clay (2011): The Political Power of Social Media. In: Foreign Affairs 90 (2), 28–41.

Smith, Aaron (2013): Civic Engagement in the Digital Age. PewResearchCenter. http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/04/25/civic-engagement-in-the-digital-age/, last access: 11.02.2018.

Sonntag, Karlheinz (Hg.) (2013): E-Protest: Neue soziale Bewegungen und Revolutionen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.

Tactical Technology Collective (2014): Visualising Information for Advocacy. 2. Aufl. URL: https://visualisingadvocacy.org/getbook.

Traue, B. (2012): Bauformen audiovisueller Selbst-Diskurse. Zur Kuratierung und Zirkulation von Amateurbildern in Film, Fernsehen und Online-Video. In: Lucht, P./ Schmidt, L.-M./ Tuma, R. (Hg.), Visuelles Wissen und Bilder des Sozialen: Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Soziologie des Visuellen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 281–301.

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Zutavern, Julia (2015): Politik des Bewegungsfilms. Marburg: Schüren (Zürcher Filmstudien, Band 34).

Andacht, Fernando (2014): A critical and semiotic approach to the wonderful, horrible life cycle of the Kony 2012 Viral Video. In: tripleC. Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (1), 214–237.

Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari (2014): Citizen camera-witnessing. Embodied political dissent in the age of ‘mediated mass self-communication´. In: New Media & Society 16 (5), S. 753–769.

Askanius, Tina (2013): Online Video Activism and Political Mash-up Genres. In: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) 4. http://portal.research.lu.se/portal/files/4197460/4180639.pdf, last access: 18.05.2016.

Askanius, Tina (2014): Video for Change. In: Gwinn Wilkins, Karin/ Obregon, Rafael/ Tufte, Thomas (Hg.): The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change. New Jersey u.a.: John Wiley & Sons, 453–470.

Bode, Leticia/ Driscoll, Kevin/ Thorson, Kjerstin/ Vraga, Emily K./ Wells, Chris/ (2014): The rules of engagement. Comparing two social protest movements on YouTube. In: Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking 17 (3), 133–140. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2013.0117.

Brown, Pete/ Dubberley, Sam/ Wardle, Claire (2014): Amateur Footage. A global Study of User-Generated content in TV and online News output. PHASE 1 REPORT. http://towcenter.org/research/amateur-footage-a-global-study-of-user-generated-content/, last access: 20.07.2016.

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010): Ordinary witnessing in post-television news. Towards a new moral imagination. In: Critical Discourse Studies 7 (4), 305–319. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2010.511839.

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Gregory, Sam (2010): Cameras Everywhere. Ubiquitous Video Documentation of Human Rights, New Forms of Video Advocacy and Concerns about Safety, Security, Dignity and Consent. In: Journal of Human Rights Practice 2 (2), 191–207.

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