Democracy 2.0 : media, political literacy and critical engagement / edited by Paul R. Carr, Michael Hoechsmann, and Gina Thésée.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carr, Paul R.

Hoechsmann, Michael.

Thésée, Gina.

Series:

Critical Media Literacies Series 1.

Critical media literacies series ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Technological innovations.

Political participation.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Mass media.

Digital media--Political aspects.

Digital media.

Social media--Political aspects.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 232 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Participatory media 2.0 have shifted the terrain of public life. We are all—individually and collectively—able to produce and circulate media to a potentially limitless audience, and we are all, at minimum, arbiters of knowledge and information through the choices—or clicks—we make when online. In this new environment of two-way and multidimensional media flow, digital communication tools, platforms and spaces offer enormous potential for the cultivation, development and circulation of diverse and counter-hegemonic perspectives. It has also provoked a crisis of communication between oppositional “echo chambers.” Democracy requires a functioning, critically-engaged and literate populace, one that can participate in, cultivate and shape, in meaningful and critical ways, the discourses and forms of the society in which it exists. Education for democracy, therefore, requires not only political literacy but also media and digital literacies, given the ubiquity and immersiveness of Media 2.0 in our lives. In Democracy 2.0 , we feature a series of evocative, international case studies that document the impact of alternative and community use of media, in general, and Web 2.0 in particular. The aim is to foster critical reflection on social realities, developing the context for coalition-building in support of social change and social justice. The chapters herein examine activist uses of social and visual media within a broad and critical frame, underpinning the potential of alternative and DIY (Do It Yourself) media to impact and help forge community relationships, to foster engagement in the civic and social life of citizens across the globe and, ultimately, to support thicker forms of democratic participation, engagement and conscientization, beyond electoralist, representative, normative democracy.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Foreword / Shirley R. Steinberg

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Michael Hoechsmann , Paul R. Carr and Gina Thésée

Democracy and Mediatized Participation

Technocracy, Education, and the Global Imperative / Peter Pericles Trifonas

Voluntary Subservience and Capitalist Religion in the Era of Reality Television Politics / William M. Reynolds

The Development of Democratic Citizenship within the Context of Education for Latin American Unification / Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon and Felipe De Jesús Alatorre Rodríguez

Digital Citizens, Not Just Consumers / Megan Ryland

Engagement with the Mainstream Media and the Relationship to Political Literacy / Paul R. Carr , Gary W. J. Pluim and Lauren Howard

Contexts of Contested Notions of Democracy and Media

Embodiment as Discourse in Indigenous Photography / Kalli Paakspuu

The Role of Social Media in Africa’s Democratic Transitions: Lessons from Burundi / Anne Munene and Ibrahim Magara

Critical Pedagogy Through Participatory Video / Lynette Sampson

Community-Driven Media in Australia / Renee Desmarchelier , Jon Austin and Cally Jetta

The Battle for Free Universal Education in Chile / Salomé Sola-Morales

The #Ocupaescola (#Occupyschool) Movement / Ivan Bomfim

“Democracy! Not Just for Locals but for us too!” / Casey Burkholder

Back Matter

EDITORS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-6351-230-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789463512305 DOI