Laura Iannelli

Hybrid Politics

Media and Participation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hybrid Politics examines the combinations and competitions between older and newer media technologies, practices, actors, contents and logics, by exploring their potential and practical implications in terms of political participation.

In this Swift, Laura Iannelli analyses the 'hybridity' of politics in democratic societies from a multidisciplinary perspective, identifying the diverse forms of power and political participation that coexist within the contemporary complex media sphere, and which influence participation in the spheres of institutionalised and protest politics.

Building upon renowned global research and original case studies, the book proposes an innovative and challenging analytic strategy to understand, explain, and problematise the contemporary complexity of political participation and communication.

Produktdetails

• SAGE Swifts
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9781473915787
• ISBN-10: 1473915783
• Artikelnr.: 44659712

Autorenporträt

Laura Iannelli is Lecturer of Sociology of Culture and Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Theory and Social Research from Sapienza University in Rome. Since 2011 she has been teaching 'Political Communication and Participation' at the University of Sassari in Sardinia (Italy). In 2014, she was Visiting Scholar at City University London and the University of Leicester. Her primary research focuses on communication processes and political participation. In 2013, she began coordinating a two-year interdisciplinary research project on contemporary public art, activism and performative citizenship, funded by the Region of Sardinia. In 2015, in collaboration with City University London she organized an international conference entitled ¿Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies¿ in Alghero, Italy, and co-edited a special issue on this topic in the journal Information, Communication & Society. She has published various book chapters and articles on media and political participation, and in 2010 authored the book 'Facebook & Co. Sociologia dei Social Network Sites' (Milano: Guerini Scientifica).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Hybrid Research on Media and Political Participation
Media and Participation
Modern Media and Democratic Participation in Political Communication Research
Modern Media, Public Spheres, and Perfomative Publics
Alternative and Activist Media
Internet Studies and Political Participation
Beyond the Single-Medium Approach
Chapter 2. Hybrid Media and Political Participation
Media Ecologies, Remediation, Polymedia, Mediamorphosis
Hybrid Media Logics in Political Communication Research
The Power of Publics between Convergent Cultural Practices and Spreadable Media Contents
Media-reflexive Activism
Research Challenges
Chapter 3. Hybrid Media Participation: Tweeting TV Politics and Pop Protests
An Emerging Body of Research
Performative Publics Tweeting TV Politics
Pop Protests: Spreadable Hybrid Genres of Political Struggle
Conclusions
References

Rezensionen

This rich, original, and engaging volume provides a new vernacular for understanding hybrid politics; paths to civic engagement that frequently fly under the radar and do not count as political. Through her discussion of pop protests, performative publics, polymedia, and civic engagement, Iannelli expertly synthesizes contemporary work to contribute her own, original take on the always-current question of the political. Smart, informed, and a must read for those interested in the political character of the net.

Zizi Papacharissi