Civic media : technology, design, practice / edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Eric, 1973- editor.

Mihailidis, Paul, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Digital media--Political aspects.

Digital media.

Political participation.

Political participation--Technological innovations.

Internet in public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (650 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture--the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation, coordinate disaster relief, campaign for policy change, and strengthen local advocacy groups. The world watched as activists used social media to organize protests during the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. Many governmental and community organizations changed their mission and function as they adopted new digital tools and practices. This book examines the use of "civic media"--The technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners from a variety of organizations offer analyses and case studies that explore the theory and practice of civic media. The contributors set out the conceptual context for the intersection of civic and media; examine the pressure to innovate and the sustainability of innovation; explore play as a template for resistance; look at civic education; discuss media-enabled activism in communities; and consider methods and funding for civic media research. The case studies that round out each section range from a "debt resistance" movement to government service delivery ratings to the "It Gets Better" campaign aimed at combating suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth. The book offers a valuable interdisciplinary dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of the increasingly influential space of civic media.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I The Big Picture

1 Democracy in the Digital Age

2 Effective Civics

3 The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

4 Liberated Technology: Inside Emancipatory Communication Activism

5 Case Study: "Bury until They Change Their Ways"-The Digg Patriots and/as User-Generated Censorship

6 Case Study: Marriage Equality, Facebook Profile Pictures, and Civic Participation

7 Case Study: Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee-Building a Debt Resistance Movement

II Systems + Design

8 Re-Imagining Government through Civic Media: Three Pathways to Institutional Innovation

9 Data Visualizations Break Down Knowledge Barriers in Public Engagement

10 The Partisan Technology Gap

11 Case Study: Code for America-Scaling Civic Engagement through Open Data and Software Design

12 Case Study: RegulationRoom

13 Case Study: Better Reykjavik-Open Municipal Policymaking

14 Case Study: The California Report Card Version 1.0

III Play + Resistance

15 Meaningful Inefficiencies: Resisting the Logic of Technological Efficiency in the Design of Civic Systems

16 Let's Get Lost: Poetic City Meets Data City

17 Superpowers to the People! How Young Activists Are Tapping the Civic Imagination

18 Case Study: Mashnotes

19 Case Study: From #destroythejoint to Far-Reaching Digital Activism-Feminist Revitalization Stemming from Social Media and Reaching Beyond

20 Case Study: The "It Gets Better Project"

21 Case Study: Terra Incognita-Serendipity and Discovery in the Age of Personalization

22 Case Study: Innovation in the Absence of a State-Civic Media and the Inclusion of the Marginalized in the Somali Territories

IV Learning + Engagement.

23 Capitalists, Consumers, and Communicators: How Schools Approach Civic Education

24 Connecting Pedagogies of Civic Media: The Literacies, Connected Civics, and Engagement in Daily Life

25 Youth Agency in Public Spheres: Emerging Tactics, Literacies, and Risks

26 Case Study: Tracking Traveling Paper Dolls-New Media, Old Media, and Global Youth Engagement in the Flat Stanley Project

27 Case Study: From Website to Weibo-New Media as a Catalyst for Activating the Local Communication Network and Civic Engagement in a Diverse City

28 Case Study: Becoming Civic-Fracking, Air Pollution, and Environmental Sensing Technologies

V Community + Action

29 Activist DDoS, Community, and the Personal

30 Partnering with Communities and Institutions

31 Community Media Infrastructure as Civic Engagement

32 Case Study: The #YoSoy132 Movement in Mexico

33 Case Study: An #EpicFail #FTW-Considering the Discursive Changes and Civic Engagement of #MyNYPD

34 Case Study: Pivot-Surreptitious Communications Design for Victims of Human Trafficking

35 Case Study: MídiaNINJA and the Rise of Citizen Journalism in Brazil

36 Case Study: Hacking Politics-Civic Struggles to Politicize Technologies

VI Research + Funding

37 Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age

38 Participatory Action Research for Civic Engagement

39 Field-Building in Stages: Funding and Sustainability in Civic Innovation

40 Case Study: Guerrilla Research Tactics-Alternative Research Methods in Urban Environments

41 Case Study: Hackathons as a Site for Civic IoT-Initial Insights

42 Case Study: Crowdfunding Civic Action-Pimp My Carroça

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-33425-9

0-262-33424-0

OCLC:

953032089