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(Mis)Understanding Political Participation: Digital Practices, New Forms of Participation and the Renewal of Democracy book cover

1st Edition

(Mis)Understanding Political Participation Digital Practices, New Forms of Participation and the Renewal of Democracy

Edited By Jeffrey Wimmer, Cornelia Wallner, Rainer Winter, Karoline Oelsner Copyright 2018
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case of mediated participation should be perceived as highly contextual and cannot be attributed to one... Read more

Introduction: (Mis-)Understanding political participation



Jeffrey Wimmer, Cornelia Wallner, Rainer Winter, and Karoline Oelsner





Part I: Practices of participation and citizenship





1. (New) Forms of digital participation? Toward a resource-model of adolescents’ digital engagement



Annika Schreiter, Sven Joeckel and Klaus Kamps





2. Long-lasting shadows of (post)communism? Generational and ethnic divides in political and civic participation in Estonia



Veronika Kalmus, Ragne Kõuts-Klemm, Mai Beilmann, Andu Rämmer and Signe Opermann





3. Enhanced inter-visibility. The experience of civic engagement in social media



Maria Francesca Murru





4. ‘I am not a consumer person’ – Political participation in repair cafés



Sigrid Kannengießer





5. Intimate citizenship politics and digital media: Teens’ discourses, sexual normativities and popular social media



Sander de Ridder and Sofie van Bauwel





Part II: Mediated representations of participation and citizenship





6. The Indignados in the European Press: beyond the protest paradigm?



Maria Kyriakidou, José Javier Olivas Osuna and Maximillian Hänska Ahy





7. Speak your mind: Mediatized political participation through second screens.



Udo Göttlich and Martin R. Herbers





8. "My body, my decision". The abortion debate and twitter as a counterpublic sphere for women in Turkey



Perrin Öğün Emre and Gülüm Şener



9. Repeat, remediate, resist? Meme activism in the context of the refugee crisis



Elena Pilipets and Rainer Winter





Part III: (Re-)Framing participation and citizenship





10. Towards a framework for studying political participation in social media



Julie Uldam

Biography

Jeffrey Wimmer is Professor in the Institute of Media, Knowledge and Communication at Augsburg University, Germany.



Cornelia Wallner is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication Science and Media Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.



Rainer Winter is Professor of Media and Cultural Theory and head of the Institute of Media and Communication Studies at Klagenfurt University, Austria.



Karoline Oelsner is a researcher in the Department of Public Relations and Communication of Technology at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.

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