1st Edition

New Technologies and Civic Engagement New Agendas in Communication

Edited By Homero Gil de Zuniga Navajas Copyright 2015
154 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This volume contributes to the extant and prolific New Agendas in Communication Series from one of the most salient perspectives within the field of Communication: New Technologies and Civic Engagement. The impact of the Internet and other technological advances are constantly referred to at most junctures of today's Communication research agendas. The area of Political Communication is not... Read more

PART I

Reconceptualizing Citizenship

1. Sampling from the civic buffet: Youth, new media and do-it-yourself citizenship

Kjerstin Thorson

2. Buying in or tuning out: The role of consumption in politically active young adults

Lucy Atkinson

3. Civic Engagement of Youths during their Transition to Adulthood

Roseanne Scholl

4. Social Media and Youth Participation in Singapore

Marko Skoric

5. Social media and their impact on civic participation

Homero Gil de Zúñiga & Saif Shahin

PART II

New Publics and Citizenship

6. Egocentric publics and perceptions of the worlds around us

Hernando Rojas

7. Internet, Ego-Centric Publics and Extremism

Magdalena Wojcieszak

8. In Search of Cognitive Complexity in the Contemporary Public Sphere

Jennifer Brundidge

9. Effects of Online Political Messages on their Senders: Conceptual Tools and Research Directions

Ray Pingree

PART III

Structure of Citizenship

10. ‘Click here to take action’: Action repertoires of youth civic organizations and the changing nature of civic participation

Chris Wells

11. Engaging Audiences via Online News Sites

Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Ashley Muddiman & Joshua Scacco

12. Personalization and the Future of News

Matt Hindman

Epilogue

13. What's Next? Three Challenges for the Future of Political Communication Research

Bruce Bimber

Biography

Homero Gil de Zúñiga is associate professor at University of Texas – Austin, where he heads the Community, Journalism and Communication Research (CJCR) unit within the School of Journalism.