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Communicative Civic-Ness : Social Media and Political Culture.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317337720
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.231
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Outline of the chapters -- 2. Engagement and participation: forms and practices -- Introduction -- Participation and forms of democracy -- The collaborative turn in political and civic life -- Participation and the social dynamics of civic life -- Lived political culture: the dynamics of political and social life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Voicing issues: the public sphere and the media -- Introduction -- Discourse and praxis in the public sphere -- The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in public spheres -- Reflexivity within the public sphere -- Media, communication and the public sphere -- Conclusion -- 4. Digital media, social media and communication -- Introduction -- Digital media and social media in communicative practice and experience -- Political communication -- Digital media, the public sphere and a global information culture -- Communication, politics and popular culture -- Communication, media networks and civic spaces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. The design and use of social media in forms of participation -- Introduction -- Social media and communication in civic and political culture -- Social media design -- Algorithms as a feature of civic and public communication -- Social media design and use in relation to engagement and participation -- News and social media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Political culture: communication and ways of relating -- Introduction -- Extending political culture: the dynamics of interpretation in shaping political sensibilities -- Civic culture and agency in making civil society -- Communication and the symbolic aspects of political culture -- The dynamics of political culture: sharing and ways of relating publicly.
Conclusion: rethinking political culture in the dynamics of civil society and the mediapolis -- 7. Contexts of civic communication at the local, national and global levels -- Introduction -- Situating the practices of social media use and civic participation within the dynamics of lived political culture -- Community-based networks and political culture: locally based community groups and social media -- Protest and political culture: rallying and expressing civic concern and social media at national and global levels -- Characteristics of the forms and content of civic communication at local, national and global levels -- Conclusion -- 8. Contexts of civic communication: campaigning, citizen journalism and general social media use in civic life -- Introduction -- Campaigning and the use of social media -- Traditional and participatory journalism and social media -- Citizens, civic participation and social media -- Conclusion -- 9. Networks of social media and civic engagement and participation -- Introduction -- Beyond socialised political culture and 'bowling alone', towards networks of expression -- Politics and engagement: deficits in politics and political processes -- Emerging publics: social media, affect and narrativising issues in the public sphere -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. Communicative civic-ness: framing communication, civic engagement and participation -- Introduction -- The context of framing social media and political culture -- Summary of the 'communication, engagement and participation complex' in relation to developing a framework of communicative civic-ness -- A framework of civic participation: communicative civic-ness, social media, civic networks and political culture -- Hybrid engagers within the social relations of civic society.
The 'communication, engagement and articipation complex' of lived political culture in the digital age -- Seven distributed nodes of communicative civic-ness -- Conclusion -- 11. Conclusion: communicative civic-ness -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Outline of the chapters -- 2. Engagement and participation: forms and practices -- Introduction -- Participation and forms of democracy -- The collaborative turn in political and civic life -- Participation and the social dynamics of civic life -- Lived political culture: the dynamics of political and social life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Voicing issues: the public sphere and the media -- Introduction -- Discourse and praxis in the public sphere -- The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in public spheres -- Reflexivity within the public sphere -- Media, communication and the public sphere -- Conclusion -- 4. Digital media, social media and communication -- Introduction -- Digital media and social media in communicative practice and experience -- Political communication -- Digital media, the public sphere and a global information culture -- Communication, politics and popular culture -- Communication, media networks and civic spaces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. The design and use of social media in forms of participation -- Introduction -- Social media and communication in civic and political culture -- Social media design -- Algorithms as a feature of civic and public communication -- Social media design and use in relation to engagement and participation -- News and social media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Political culture: communication and ways of relating -- Introduction -- Extending political culture: the dynamics of interpretation in shaping political sensibilities -- Civic culture and agency in making civil society -- Communication and the symbolic aspects of political culture -- The dynamics of political culture: sharing and ways of relating publicly.

Conclusion: rethinking political culture in the dynamics of civil society and the mediapolis -- 7. Contexts of civic communication at the local, national and global levels -- Introduction -- Situating the practices of social media use and civic participation within the dynamics of lived political culture -- Community-based networks and political culture: locally based community groups and social media -- Protest and political culture: rallying and expressing civic concern and social media at national and global levels -- Characteristics of the forms and content of civic communication at local, national and global levels -- Conclusion -- 8. Contexts of civic communication: campaigning, citizen journalism and general social media use in civic life -- Introduction -- Campaigning and the use of social media -- Traditional and participatory journalism and social media -- Citizens, civic participation and social media -- Conclusion -- 9. Networks of social media and civic engagement and participation -- Introduction -- Beyond socialised political culture and 'bowling alone', towards networks of expression -- Politics and engagement: deficits in politics and political processes -- Emerging publics: social media, affect and narrativising issues in the public sphere -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. Communicative civic-ness: framing communication, civic engagement and participation -- Introduction -- The context of framing social media and political culture -- Summary of the 'communication, engagement and participation complex' in relation to developing a framework of communicative civic-ness -- A framework of civic participation: communicative civic-ness, social media, civic networks and political culture -- Hybrid engagers within the social relations of civic society.

The 'communication, engagement and articipation complex' of lived political culture in the digital age -- Seven distributed nodes of communicative civic-ness -- Conclusion -- 11. Conclusion: communicative civic-ness -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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