ISBN:
9780745675404
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0745675409
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 200 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Digital media and society series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Papacharissi, Zizi A private sphere
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Mass media - Political aspects
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Democracy
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Internet
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Political aspects
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Political participation
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Computer network resources
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Electronic books
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Neue Medien
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Online-Medien
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Internet
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Demokratie
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Bürgerbeteiligung
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Politische Beteiligung
Abstract:
Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing?Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal an electorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued with political conventions of the mainstream.This book examines how online digital media shape and are shaped by contemporary democracies, by addressing the following issues:How do online technologies remake how we function as citizens in contemporary democracies?What happens to our understanding of public and private as digitalized democracies converge technologies, spaces and practices?How do citizens of today understand and practice their civic responsibilities, and how do they compare to citizens of the past?How do discourses of globalization, commercialization and convergence inform audience/producer, citizen/consumer, personal/political, public/private roles individuals must take on?Are resulting political behaviors atomized or collective?Is there a public sphere anymore, and if not, what model of civic engagement expresses current tendencies and tensions best?Students and scholars of media studies, political science, and critical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with some of the most important questions facing democracies today.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Contemporary Democracies, Civic Engagement, and the Media; Media and the mythology of the new; Old and new democracy; The conditions of contemporary democracy; A new(er) civic vernacular; 2 Public and Private Expression in Contemporary Democracies; The dichotomy of public and private over time; The dichotomy of public and private at present; Privacy as commodity; A trichotomy: the social; 3 Converged Media, Converged Audiences, and Converged Publics; Convergence in everyday life; Convergence of technologies
Description / Table of Contents:
Convergence of spacesConvergence of practices; Technology as the architecture of the new; 4 The Question of Citizenship in a Converged Environment; A long history of imperfect citizenship; The past and contemporary citizenship modalities; The liquid citizen: a combined model of flexible citizenship; 5 The Public Sphere, Expired? On the Democratizing Potential of Convergent Technologies; The public sphere in contemporary democracies; Access to information; Reciprocity; Commercialization; A new kind of public; 6 A Private Sphere; Five new civic habits
Description / Table of Contents:
1 The networked self and the culture of remote connectivity2 A new narcissism: blogging; 3 The rebirth of satire and subversion: YouTube; 4 Social media news aggregation and the plurality of collaborative filtering; 5 The agonistic pluralism of online activism; The private sphere and the networked citizen; References; Index
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