Communicative Civic-ness: Social Media and Political Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138959408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 202 str.

Bridgette Wessels

Opis

Communicative Civic-ness explores how political culture shapes social media interactions in civic participation, arguing that social media usage is informed by context-specific political culture. Drawing on cutting-edge research, the book provides a robust theoretical and conceptual framework on civic engagement and participation and develops the concept of ‘communicative civic-ness’ to aid a better-informed debate about the capacity of social media to support the pluralistic discussions that underpin deliberative democratic processes.

O autorze

Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequalities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication.