Civic media : technology, design, practice /
Civic media : technology, design, practice /
edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xii, 648 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Democracy in the digital age / Effective civics / The logic of connective action : digital media and the personalization of contentious politics / Liberated technology : inside emancipatory communication activism / Case study : "Bury until they change their ways" -- the Digg Patriots and/as user-generated censorship / Case study : marriage equality, Facebook profile pictures, and civic participation / Case study : Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee -- building a debt resistance movement / Re-imagining government through civic media : three pathways to institutional innovation / Data visualizations break down knowledge barriers in public engagement / The partisan technology gap / Case study : Code for America -- scaling civic engagement through open data and software design / Case study : RegulationRoom / Case study : Better Reykjavik -- open municipal policymaking / Case study : The California report card version 1.0 / Peter Levine -- Ethan Zuckerman -- W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg -- Stefania Milan -- Chris Peterson -- Brady Robards and Bob Buttigieg -- Enhardt Graeff -- Beth Simone Noveck -- Sarah Williams -- David Karpf -- Andrew Richard Schrock -- Dmitry Epstein and Cheryl Blake -- Derek Lackaff -- CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative at UC Berkeley. Meaningful inefficiencies : resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems / Let's get lost : poetic city meets data city / Superpowers to the people! How young activists are tapping the civic imagination / Case study : Mashnotes / Case study : From #destroythejoint to far-reaching digital activism -- feminist revitalization stemming from social media and reaching beyond / Case study : The "It Gets Better Project" / Case study: Terra incognita -- serendipity and discovery in the age of personalization / Case study : Innovation in the absence of a state -- civic media and the inclusion of the marginalized in the Somali territories / Capitalists, consumers, and communicators : how schools approach civic education / Connecting pedagogies of civic media : the literacies, connected civics, and engagement in daily life / Youth agency in public spheres : emerging tactics, literacies, and risks / Case study : Tracking traveling paper dolls -- new media, old media, and global youth engagement in the Flat Stanley Project / Case study : From website to Weibo -- new media as a catalyst for activating the local communication network and civic engagement in a diverse city / Case study : Becoming civic -- fracking, air pollution, and environmental sensing technologies / Eric Gordon and Stephen Walter -- Beth Coleman -- Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik -- Roy Bendor -- Jessica McLean and Sophia Maalsen -- Laurie Phillips Honda -- Catherine D'Ignazio -- Nicole Stremlau -- Renee Hobbs -- Paul Mihailidis and Roman Gerodimos -- Elisabeth Soep -- Katie Day Good -- Daniela Gerson, Nien-Tsu Nancy Chen, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, and Michael Parks -- Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard, Nerea Calvillo, Nick Shapiro, and Tom Keene. Activist DDoS, community, and the personal / Partnering with communities and institutions / Community media infrastructure as civic engagement / Case study : The #YoSoy132 movement in Mexico / Case Study : An #EpicFail #FTW -- considering the discursive changes and civic engagement of #MyNYPD / Case study : Pivot -- surreptitious communications design for victims of human trafficking / Case study : MidiaNINJA and the rise of citizen journalism in Brazil / Case study : Hacking politics -- civic struggles to politicize technologies / Revisiting the measurement of political participation for the Digital Age / Participatory action research for civic engagement / Field-building in stages : funding and sustainability in civic innovation / Case study : Guerrilla research tactics -- alternative research methods in urban environments / Case study : Hackathons as a site for civic IoT- initial insights / Case study : Crowdfunding civic action -- Pimp My Carroça / Molly Sauter -- Ceasar McDowell and Melissa Yvonne Chinchilla -- Colin Rhinesmith -- Emiliano Treré -- Sarah Whitcomb Lozier -- Tad Hirsch -- Stuart Davis -- Sebastian Kubitschko -- Benjamin Bowyer and Joseph Kahne -- Marcus Foth and Martin Brynskov -- Valerie Chang and Beth Gutelius -- Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Lindy Osborne, Inger Mewburn, and Ben Kraal -- Carl DiSalvo and ken anderson -- Rodrigo Davies.
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.
9780262334242 9780262334235 9780262334259
Mass media--Political aspects.
Digital media--Political aspects.
Political participation.
Political participation--Technological innovations.
Internet in public administration.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Electronic Books.
P95 / .C585 2016
Includes bibliographies and index.
Democracy in the digital age / Effective civics / The logic of connective action : digital media and the personalization of contentious politics / Liberated technology : inside emancipatory communication activism / Case study : "Bury until they change their ways" -- the Digg Patriots and/as user-generated censorship / Case study : marriage equality, Facebook profile pictures, and civic participation / Case study : Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee -- building a debt resistance movement / Re-imagining government through civic media : three pathways to institutional innovation / Data visualizations break down knowledge barriers in public engagement / The partisan technology gap / Case study : Code for America -- scaling civic engagement through open data and software design / Case study : RegulationRoom / Case study : Better Reykjavik -- open municipal policymaking / Case study : The California report card version 1.0 / Peter Levine -- Ethan Zuckerman -- W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg -- Stefania Milan -- Chris Peterson -- Brady Robards and Bob Buttigieg -- Enhardt Graeff -- Beth Simone Noveck -- Sarah Williams -- David Karpf -- Andrew Richard Schrock -- Dmitry Epstein and Cheryl Blake -- Derek Lackaff -- CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative at UC Berkeley. Meaningful inefficiencies : resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems / Let's get lost : poetic city meets data city / Superpowers to the people! How young activists are tapping the civic imagination / Case study : Mashnotes / Case study : From #destroythejoint to far-reaching digital activism -- feminist revitalization stemming from social media and reaching beyond / Case study : The "It Gets Better Project" / Case study: Terra incognita -- serendipity and discovery in the age of personalization / Case study : Innovation in the absence of a state -- civic media and the inclusion of the marginalized in the Somali territories / Capitalists, consumers, and communicators : how schools approach civic education / Connecting pedagogies of civic media : the literacies, connected civics, and engagement in daily life / Youth agency in public spheres : emerging tactics, literacies, and risks / Case study : Tracking traveling paper dolls -- new media, old media, and global youth engagement in the Flat Stanley Project / Case study : From website to Weibo -- new media as a catalyst for activating the local communication network and civic engagement in a diverse city / Case study : Becoming civic -- fracking, air pollution, and environmental sensing technologies / Eric Gordon and Stephen Walter -- Beth Coleman -- Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik -- Roy Bendor -- Jessica McLean and Sophia Maalsen -- Laurie Phillips Honda -- Catherine D'Ignazio -- Nicole Stremlau -- Renee Hobbs -- Paul Mihailidis and Roman Gerodimos -- Elisabeth Soep -- Katie Day Good -- Daniela Gerson, Nien-Tsu Nancy Chen, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, and Michael Parks -- Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard, Nerea Calvillo, Nick Shapiro, and Tom Keene. Activist DDoS, community, and the personal / Partnering with communities and institutions / Community media infrastructure as civic engagement / Case study : The #YoSoy132 movement in Mexico / Case Study : An #EpicFail #FTW -- considering the discursive changes and civic engagement of #MyNYPD / Case study : Pivot -- surreptitious communications design for victims of human trafficking / Case study : MidiaNINJA and the rise of citizen journalism in Brazil / Case study : Hacking politics -- civic struggles to politicize technologies / Revisiting the measurement of political participation for the Digital Age / Participatory action research for civic engagement / Field-building in stages : funding and sustainability in civic innovation / Case study : Guerrilla research tactics -- alternative research methods in urban environments / Case study : Hackathons as a site for civic IoT- initial insights / Case study : Crowdfunding civic action -- Pimp My Carroça / Molly Sauter -- Ceasar McDowell and Melissa Yvonne Chinchilla -- Colin Rhinesmith -- Emiliano Treré -- Sarah Whitcomb Lozier -- Tad Hirsch -- Stuart Davis -- Sebastian Kubitschko -- Benjamin Bowyer and Joseph Kahne -- Marcus Foth and Martin Brynskov -- Valerie Chang and Beth Gutelius -- Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Lindy Osborne, Inger Mewburn, and Ben Kraal -- Carl DiSalvo and ken anderson -- Rodrigo Davies.
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.
9780262334242 9780262334235 9780262334259
Mass media--Political aspects.
Digital media--Political aspects.
Political participation.
Political participation--Technological innovations.
Internet in public administration.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Electronic Books.
P95 / .C585 2016