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VAIA DOUDAKI, NICO CARPENTIER, MICHAŁ GŁOWACKI (eds.) (2022) Central European Journal of Communication, 15, 1(30).
CARPENTIER, NICO, SUMIALA, JOHANNA (eds.) (2021) Arts-based Research in Communication and Media Studies, Comunicazioni Sociali, 1.
DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN, GOYVAERTS, JANA, CARPENTIER, NICO, GLYNOS, JASON, STAVRAKAKIS, YANNIS, TOMANI TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA (eds.) (2021) Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, Journal of Language and Politics on Discourse Theory, 20(1).
RIBEIRO, FÁBIO, DUARTE MELO, ANA, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2019) Rescuing participation, Comunicação e Sociedade, 36.
RIBEIRO, FÁBIO, DUARTE MELO, ANA, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2019) Resgatar a participação, Comunicação e Sociedade, 36.
DOUDAKI VAIA, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2018) Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency: Political Struggles over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology, Comunicazioni sociali, 1.
TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2016) Anchoring the Critical in Media Research, Javnost – The Public, 23(1).
ULDAM, JULIE, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2015) Publics, Discursive Struggles and Political Agency, Javnost – The Public, 22(1).
Murru, Maria Francesca, Carpentier, Nico (Eds.) (2013) The Responsibility of Knowledge. The Values of Critique and Social Relevance in Research on Media and Communication, special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali, Rivista di Media, Spettacolo e Studi culturali, 3.

CARPENTIER, NICO, DAHLGREN, PETER (eds) (2014) Histories of media(ted) participation. CM, Communication Management Quarterly, 30.
CARPENTIER, NICO, DAHLGREN, PETER (eds) (2011) Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation. CM, Communication Management Quarterly, 21.
CARPENTIER, NICO, VAN BAUWEL SOFIE, BAUWENS JOKE, THOMAS TANJA, CSIGO PETER and VIRCHOW FABIAN (eds) (2009) On the critical, Politics and Culture 4, http://www.politicsandculture.org/issue/2009-issue-4/.
CARPENTIER, NICO, VAN BAUWEL SOFIE, BAUWENS JOKE, THOMAS TANJA, CSIGO PETER and VIRCHOW FABIAN (eds) (2008) European Research in Politics and Culture, Politics and Culture 4, http://www.politicsandculture.org/issue/2008-issue-4/.

Full articles and chapters

Discursive-Material Struggles over Legitimate Heroism: A Visual Essay on Floating Signifiers and Their Materiality in the Estonian Second World War Memorialscape, with Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Pille Runnel and Inês Moreira, in Membrana, 7(1&2): 1-36.
Conceptualization of Change, with Kristýna Kopivová and Vaia Doudaki, Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 15(1).
Palimpsestic Memorializations of World War II: A Visual Essay on Material Displacements and Discursive Struggles in the Estonian Memorialscape, with Ruth-Helene Melioranski, Inês Moreira and Pille Runnel, Comunicazioni Sociali, 2: 219–245.
The vertical and horizontal dimensions in the social construction of leadership: A case study on the social media followers of the Croatian politicians Zoran Milanović and Miro Bulj, with Silvija Vuković, online first.
When the Margins Enter the Centre: The Documentary Along the Borders of Turkey and Its YouTube Comments as Conflicting Constructions of Europeanity, with Vaia Doudaki, in Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Sandra Ponzanesi (eds.) Creating Europe from the Margins, London: Routledge, pp. 174-192. <
A Social Mapping of Swedish Environment-Focussed Facebook Groups: The Principles, Methods and Implementation of a Mapping Project, with Vaia Doudaki, Telematics and Informatics, online first.
Mapping environment-focused social media, audiovisual media and art, in Sweden: How a diversity of voices and issues is combined with ideological homogeneity, with Vaia Doudaki, Communications, online first.
Exploring digital media practices in discourse-material relations: Dialogue with Prof. Nico Carpentier, President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, with Piyu Gong, Yiming Chen and Guiquan Xu, Shanghai Journalism Review, 483(5): 75-83.
Behind the narratives of climate change denial and rights of nature: Sustainability and the ideological struggle between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in two radical Facebook groups in Sweden, with Vaia Doudaki, Journal of Political Ideologies, online first.
Bridging the Discursive and Material Dimensions of Europeanity and Europeanisation: A Participatory Semantic Map Approach, with Miloš Hroch, Sara Cannizzaro, Andrea Miconi and Vaia Doudaki, OBS*, 17(1): 100-133.
Shades of technocratic solutionism: A discursive-material political ecology approach to the analysis of the Swedish TV series Hållbart näringsliv, with Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Empedocles, 13(2): 117-134.
Akademik Bilgiyi Yazılı Akademik Metnin Ötesine Aktarmak: Demokrasinin Aynalı Sarayı Enstalasyon Deneyinin Otoetnografik Bir Analizi, Yeni Medya, 12: 400-420.
Mediating Change, Changing Media: Dimensions and Perspectives, with Vaia Doudaki and Michał Głowacki, CEJC, 15, 1(30): 2-14.
Facebook Groups in Sweden Constructing Sustainability: Resisting Hegemonic Anthropocentrism, with Vaia Doudaki, CEJC, 15, 1(30): 52-71.
Silencing/Unsilencing Nature: A 'Lupocentric' Remediation of Animal-Nature Relationships, CEJC, 15, 1(30): 92-111.
"First forced displacements, then slaughter": Discursive regulations of nature by the state and Sami in a Swedish TV documentary, with Kirill Filimonov, Journal of Language and Politics, online first.
“How is he entitled to say this?”: Constructing the identities of experts, ordinary people, and presenters in Swedish television series on climate change, with Kirill Filimonov, Nordicom Review, 43(1): 111-128.
Countering the stigma of homeless people: The Swedish street paper Situation Sthlm as a counter-hegemonic voice for the rehumanisation of homeless people, with Vaia Doudaki, Ali İhsan Akbaş, Tianyi Wang, in Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society, Marta Pérez-Escolar and José Manuel Noguera-Vivo (eds.).
Scissors, glue and other machines: The materiality of the Prague zine scene in the post-digital era, with Miloš Hroch, Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays, 8.
Beyond the state as the ‘cold monster’: The importance of Russian alternative media in reconfiguring the hegemonic state discourse, with Kirill Filimonov, Critical Discourse Studies, 20(2): 166-182.
The European Assemblage: A Discursive-Material Analysis of European Identity, Europaneity and Europeanisation, Filosofija. Sociologija, 32(3): 231-239.
Conflicting and entangled human-nature relationships: A discursive-material analysis of the documentary film Kiruna - A Brand New World, with Vaia Doudaki and Anna Rozsypal Pajerová, People and Nature, 3: 1166-1178.
Silencing / Unsilencing Nature: A Participatory Visual Essay on the Right to Flourish, Comunicazioni Sociali, 1: 61-70.
Introduction: Arts-Based Research in Communication and Media Studies, with Johanna Sumilia, Comunicazioni Sociali, 1: 3-10.
The dislocation of the empty signifier freedom as a tool in global political struggles: A case study on RT’s mini-series How to watch the news, Javnost/The Public, 29(1): 66-81.
Comunicando o conhecimento acadêmico além do texto acadêmico escrito: uma análise autoetnográfica do experimento da instalação Mirror Palace of Democracy, MATRIZes, 14(2): 75-99.
Discourse-theoretical perspectives on class, populism and participation. An interview with Nico Carpentier, with Yiannis Mylonas, Communications. Media. Design, 5(1): 201-221.
From stakeholders to joint knowledge production partners: Structuring the participation of non-academic partners in the start-up phase of an academic research project, with Vaia Doudaki, Conjunctions, 8(1): 3-19.
The Militarization of a Public Debate: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis of the Construction of War and Peace in Public Debates Surrounding the Books of Three Turkish Military Commanders on the “1974 Cyprus Peace Operation”, with D. Beybin Kejanlioglu, Revista de Comunicação Dialógica, 3: 107-139.
Putting a Non-Essentialist Ontology to Work: A Response to Peter Dahlgren’s Review of the Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation, Conjunctions, 7(1): 1-12.
The Discursive Construction of War and Peace in the Books of Three Turkish Commanders on the “1974 Cyprus Peace Operation”, with D. Beybin Kejanlioglu, Journal of Cyprus Studies, 20(44): 19-46.
Rescuing participation: A critique on the dark participation concept, with Fábio Ribeiro and Ana Duarte Melo, Comunicação e Sociedade, 36: 17-35.
Resgatar a participação: Para uma crítica sobre o lado oculto do conceito, with Fábio Ribeiro and Ana Duarte MeloComunicação e Sociedade, 36: 17-35.
Introductory note, with Fábio Ribeiro and Ana Duarte Melo, Comunicação e Sociedade, 36: 9-14.
Nota introdutória, with Fábio Ribeiro and Ana Duarte Melo, Comunicação e Sociedade, 36: 9-14.
Participation, democracy, and creating a radical progressive utopia for the 21st century: An interview with Nico Carpentier (2019), with Derya Yüksek, Moment Journal, Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(2): 516-543.
The construction of the homeless in the Greek street paper shedia (2019), with Vaia Doudaki, in Maria Francesca Murru et al. (eds.) Communication as the intersection of the old and the new. Bremen: edition Lumière, pp. 85-103.
Critiquing hegemony and fostering alternative ways of thinking about homelessness: The articulation of the homeless subject position in the Greek street paper shedia (2019), with Vaia Doudaki, Communications. Media. Design, 4(1): 5-31.
Community media, their communities and conflict: A mapping analysis of Israeli community broadcasting groups (2019), with Hillel Nossek, Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 4(2): 1-13.
The Construction of the Homeless as a Discursive-Political Struggle: A Discursive-Theoretical Re-reading of the Homeless Subject Position (2019), with Vaia Doudaki, Filosofija. Sociologija, 30(1): 71-79.
Introduction: Discourse Theory, Media and Communication, and the Work of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group (2019), with Benjamin De Cleen en Leen van Brussel, in Leen Van Brussel et. al (eds.) Communication and Discourse Theory. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 3-31.
Além da escada da participação: Ferramentas analíticas para a análise crítica dos processos midiáticos participativos (2018), Mídia e Cotidiano, Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Mídia e Cotidiano, 12(3): 245-274.
Outside the Comfort Zone: Participation and Advertising (2018), in Ana Duarte Melo and Marcela Duque (eds.) ParticipAD: Participatory Advertising: a global perspective with a Latin American focus / Publicidad Participativa: Una perspectiva global con un enfoque latinoamericano. Braga: CECS, pp. 13-34.
Stretching the Frontiers of Communication and Media Studies, An interview with Nico Carpentier (2018), by David Grondin, in Communiquer, 23: 155-170.
Étirer les frontières des études sur les communications et les médias, An interview with Nico Carpentier (2018), by David Grondin, in Communiquer, 23: 137-154.
Diversifying the Other: Antagonism, agonism and the multiplicity of articulations of self and other, by Nico Carpentier, in Laura Peja, et al. (eds.) Current Perspectives on Communication and Media Research, Bremen: edition lumière, pp. 145-162.
"Participation is a corrective of imbalances in power relations": An interview with Nico Carpentier, by Koffi Robert Badou, Vania Baldi, Nico Carpentier, in ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 11(1-21): 5-25.
Mapping Community Media Organisations: A Methodological Reflection, by Christiana Voniati, Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier (2018), Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 3(1): 17-32
Foreword - The Era of the Both, by Nico Carpentier (2018), in Francisco Sierra Caballero and Tommaso Gravante (eds.) Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America. Critical Analysis and Current Challenges, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. v-xii
Participatory Contact Zones and Conflict Transformation: The Participatory Intensities of the Cyprus Friendship Program, by Derya Yüksek and Nico Carpentier (2018), in Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 5(1): 1-21
De-Naturalizing Antagonistic Nationalism Through an Academic Intervention: The Reception of Two Photography Exhibitions on the Memorialization of the Cyprus Problem, by Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki, Yiannis Christidis and Fatma Nazli Köksal (2018) Comunicazioni sociali, 1: 50-67
An Introduction to Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency, by Nico Carpentier and Vaia Doudaki (2018) Comunicazioni sociali, 1: 3-8
Introduction to The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation, by Nico Carpentier (2017)
Introduction: A multidisciplinary and multiperspectival approach on conflict, by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier (2018), in Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier (eds.) Cyprus and Its Conflicts: Representations, Materialities and Cultures. New York: Berghahn, pp. 1-21.
Différencier accès, interaction et participation, by Nico Carpentier (2016), in Pierre Morelli, Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel and Didier Baltazart (eds.) Publics et TIC: Confrontations conceptuelles et recherches empiriques, Questions de communication, Série actes 31. Nancy: PUN, pp. 45-69.
Beyond the Ladder of Participation: An Analytical Toolkit for the Critical Analysis of Participatory Media Processes, by Nico Carpentier (2016), Javnost - The Public, 23(1): 70-88.
Différencier accès, interaction et participation, by Nico Carpentier (2016), in Pierre Morelli, Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel and Didier Baltazart (eds.) Publics et TIC: Confrontations conceptuelles et recherches empiriques, Questions de communication, Série actes 31. Nancy: PUN, pp. 45-69.
Articulating Participation and Agonism: A Case Study on the Agonistic Re-articulations of the Cyprus Problem in the Broadcasts of the Community Broadcaster MYCYradio, by Nico Carpentier (2015), the Cyprus Review, 27(1): 129-153.
Differentiating between access, interaction and participation, by Nico Carpentier (2015), Conjunctions, 2(2): 7-28.
Who to serve and how? A discourse-theoretical analysis of public service broadcasting as a floating signifier, by Nico Carpentier (2015), Media and Communication / Mediji i komunikacije, 2(4): 7-23.
Introduction: Researching the transformation of societal self-understanding, by Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp (2015), in Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin, Richard Kilborn (eds.) (2015) Journalism, representation and the public sphere. Bremen: edition lumière, pp. 7-17.
Recognizing difference in academia. The sqridge as a metaphor for agonistic interchange, by Nico Carpentier (2015), in Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin, Richard Kilborn (eds.) (2015) Journalism, representation and the public sphere. Bremen: edition lumière, pp. 211-226.
Introduction: Investigating the Everyday Presence of Media, by Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier and Andreas Hepp (2014), in Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn, (eds.) Everyday Media Agency in Europe. Bremen: edition lumière, pp. 9-21.
Participation as a Fantasy: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Power-Sharing Fantasies, by Nico Carpentier (2014), in Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn, (eds.) Everyday Media Agency in Europe. Bremen: edition lumière, pp. 319-330.
Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics. Part 3: Politics, by ALLEN, DANIELLE, BAILEY, MOYA, CARPENTIER, NICO, FENTON, NATALIE, JENKINS, HENRY, LOTHIAN, ALEXIS, QUI, JACK, SCHAEFER, MIRKO TOBIAS, SRINIVASAN, RAMESH (2014), International journal of communication, 8, Forum 1129–1151.
On Walls, Squares, Bridges and Sqridges A framework to think about North-South dialogues in communication and media studies, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2014), Journal of Latin American Communication Research, 4(1).
Quality Discourses: Community Media Articulations of Democratic and Negotiated Quality, by Nico Carpentier (2013), in Ilija Tomanic Trivundza, Nico Carpentier, Hannu Nieminen, Pille Pruulmann-Venerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Ebba Sundin and Tobias Olsson (eds) Past, future and change: Contemporary analysis of evolving media scapes. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Press, pp. 237-247.
The concept of participation. If they have access and interact, do they really participate?, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2012), Fronteiras – estudos midiáticos, 14(2): 164-177.
Using Discourse Theory: A Discourse-Theoretical Exploration of the Articulation of Death, by Nico Carpentier and Leen Van Brussel (2012), in Ilija Tomanic Trivundza, Nico Carpentier, Hannu Nieminen, Pille Pruulmann-Venerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Ebba Sundin and Tobias Olsson (eds) Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere. The Intellectual Work of the 2011 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, pp. 57-68.
Encarando a morte do Autor. O trabalho identitário do profissional de cultura e as fantasias de controle [Facing the death of the Author. Cultural professional's identity work and the fantasies of control], by CARPENTIER, NICO (2011), MATRIZes, 4(2): 183-204.
Entre Formas Minimalistas e Maximalistas de Participação Midiática, by CUSTÓDIO, LEONARDO, CARPENTIER NICO (2011), Intercom – Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação, jan./jun. 2011, 34(1): 269-284.
Deploying Discourse Theory. An introduction to Discourse Theory and Discourse Theoretical Analysis, by Nico Carpentier (2010), in Nico Carpentier, Ilija Tomanic Trivundza, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Ebba Sundin, Tobias Olsson, Richard Kilborn, Hannu Nieminen and Bart Cammaerts (eds) Media and Communication Studies Intersections and Interventions. The intellectual work of ECREA's 2010 European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu: Tartu University Press, pp. 251-265.
Oscillations between coherence and fragmentation, and between globalisation, glocalisation and translocalisation: The Europeanisation of the Communication and Media Studies discipline, by Nico Carpentier (2009), in Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Tobias Olsson, Hannu Nieminen, Ebba Sundin and Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds) Communicative approaches to politics and ethics in Europe. The intellectual work of the 2009 ECREA European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, pp. 309-322.
The critical and its anchorage into the social. An introduction to the 2009 winter issue of Politics and Culture, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2009), Politics and Culture 4.
Blogging the 2003 Iraq War: Challenging the Ideological Model of War and Mainstream Journalism?, by CAMMAERTS, BART, CARPENTIER, NICO (2009), OBS*, 3(2).
Introduction: A European perspective on Politics and Culture, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2008), Politics and Culture 4.
The Belly of the City. Alternative Communicative City Networks (draft), by CARPENTIER, NICO (2008), International Communication Gazette, 70(3-4): 237-255.
Putting your relationship to the test. Constructions of fidelity, seduction and participation in Temptation Island, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2008), Comunicación e Cidadanía. Revista Internacional de Xornalismo Social / Social Journalism International Review, 2: 321-345.
Theoretical frameworks for participatory media, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2007), in Nico Carpentier et al. (eds) Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe. The intellectual work of the 2007 European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, pp. 105-122.
MUDs and power - Reducing the democratic imaginary?, by Nico Carpentier & Niky Patyn, Estudos em Comunicação, 2007, nr. 2, p. 1-45
Participation and power in the television program Temptation Island, by CARPENTIER, NICO (2006), in Carpentier, Nico et al. (eds) Researching media, democracy and participation. The Intellectual work of the 2006 European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 135-147.

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Journals

International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Communication, Culture & Critique
Observatorio (OBS*)

Estudos de Comunicação
Communication for Development
and Social Change
Javnost-The Public

Medijske Studije / Media Studies
CM - Communication Management Quarterly
Critical Discourse Studies

Comunicazioni Sociali
Media Transformations
Journal of Language and Politics

Journalism and Discourse Studies
Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation

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