1st Edition

Self-Mediation New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

Edited By Lilie Chouliaraki Copyright 2012
144 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Blogs, You Tube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are but a few of the new media options available for ordinary people to express themselves in public. This intensely technological presentation of everyday lives in our public culture is today hailed as a new, playful form of citizenship that enhances democratic participation and cosmopolitan solidarity. But is... Read more

Introduction Lilie Chouliaraki

Part I: The Democratisation of Technology

Chapter 1. Silly Citizenship John Hartley

Chapter 2. Performing citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video "Fitna" Liesbet van Zoonen, Farida Vis and Sabina Mihelj

Chapter 3. Teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression Sonia Livingstone

Chapter 4. Stance taking in public discussion Greg Myers

Part II: The Technologisation of Democracy

Chapter 5. Audiences as Media Producers. Content Analysis of 260 Blogs Zizi Papacharissi

Chapter 6. New authenticity?: Communicative practices on You Tube Andrew Tolson

Chapter 7. Self-representation in museums: therapy or democracy? Nancy Thumim

Chapter 8. Ordinary witnessing in post-television news: Towards a new moral imagination Lilie Chouliaraki

Biography

Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.