Self-Mediation : New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

ISBN-13: 9780415672122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 144 str.

Lilie Chouliaraki

Opis

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 this celebration of self- mediation justified or premature? Drawing on a view of self-mediation as a pluralistic practice that potentially enhances our democratic public culture but which is, at the same time, closely linked to the monopolistic interests of the market, this volume critically explores the dynamics of mediated self-representation as an essentially ambivalent cultural phenomenon. It is, the volume argues, the hybrid potential for increased democratization but also for subtler social control, inherent in the public visibility of the ordinary, which ultimately defines contemporary citizenship.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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