Mercea Civic Participation in Contentious Politics

The Digital Foreshadowing of Protest
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50869-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten, eBook

The book examines the highly dynamic communication ecology of recent contentious politics and its expanding digital footprint. First, it looks at the attainment of democratic citizenship through practice as street protests attract substantial numbers of followers who narrate their involvement or reflect on the claims and the implications of collective action on social media. Secondly, it considers the ramifications for contemporary democracy arising from the large-scale uptake of social media by variegated protest networks, which no longer pivot on the coordination capacity of bureaucratic movement organizations. The book ties these aspects together to propose that contentious politics can be a fertile ground for progressive civic participation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mercea, Dan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Networked Communication of Contentious Politics.- Chapter 2. The Protest Events.- Chapter 3. Digital Prefigurative Participation.- Chapter 4. Casual Protestors.- Chapter 5. Organisational Form.- Chapter 6. Participatory Coordination.- Chapter 7. Informal Civic Learning.- Conclusion: Civic Participation in Contentious Politics.

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Mercea is Lecturer in Sociology at City University London, UK, and Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Media and Communications. He has a lasting interest in the media and communication practices of groups, individuals and organisations involved in protest events. He has published on this topic in the  Journal of Communication ,  New Media and Society ,  Information, Communication and Society,   The Communication Review  and  Convergence . He has also edited two collections on the use of digital media in democratic politics.