Bridgette Wessels

Communicative Civic-ness

Social Media and Political Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138959378
• ISBN-10: 1138959375
• Artikelnr.: 52456663

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Engagement and participation: forms and practices 3.
Voicing issues: the public sphere and the media 4. Digital media, social
media and communication 5. The design and use of social media in forms of
participation 6. Political culture: communication and ways of relating 7.
Contexts of civic communication at the local, national and global level 8.
Contexts of civic communication: campaigning, citizen journalism and
general social media use in civic life 9. Networks of social media and
civic engagement and participation 10. Communicative civic-ness: framing
communication, civic engagement and participation 11. Conclusion:
communicative civic-ness