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What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized
democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving
them? This book explores these questions, adopting a
multi-disciplinary approach that combines work from media studies,
journalism studies, and political science scholars, and draws on
trends in countries including Australia, the United States, the
United Kingdom, Egypt, and Indonesia. The book is divided into four
main themes: (1) the impact of digital communication on politics
and government; (2) the future of news and journalism in the
network society; (3) the potential of digital media to enhance
civic engagement and social inclusion; and (4) visions for the
future of digital democracy.
What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized
democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving
them? This book explores these questions, adopting a
multi-disciplinary approach that combines work from media studies,
journalism studies, and political science scholars, and draws on
trends in countries including Australia, the United States, the
United Kingdom, Egypt, and Indonesia. The book is divided into four
main themes: (1) the impact of digital communication on politics
and government; (2) the future of news and journalism in the
network society; (3) the potential of digital media to enhance
civic engagement and social inclusion; and (4) visions for the
future of digital democracy.
Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns,
and communication in developed and developing nations, but
available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to
experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this
imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge research across six
continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of
recent political uses of social media. Drawing together empirical
analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in
national and regional elections and referenda, The Routledge
Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging
from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi, and
from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish
independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of
keystone theoretical contributions, evaluating and updating
existing frameworks for the social media age.
Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns,
and communication in developed and developing nations, but
available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to
experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this
imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge research across six
continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of
recent political uses of social media. Drawing together empirical
analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in
national and regional elections and referenda, The Routledge
Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging
from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi, and
from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish
independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of
keystone theoretical contributions, evaluating and updating
existing frameworks for the social media age.
This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014.
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service
to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday
communication as well as for political debates, crisis
communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic
idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages
(tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by
other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international
Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts,
this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts
of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive
overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also
presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their
practical application in different research contexts.
We -- the users turned creators and distributors of content -- are
TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of
the Year 2007. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace,
YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the
development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going
on? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing
participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core
principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation
in environments, from open source through blogs and Wikipedia to
Second Life. This book shows that what's emerging here is no longer
just a new form of content production, but a new process for the
continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by
collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the
gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will
affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and
democracy.
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first
comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications.
The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key
news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the
massively successful technology news site Slashdot, and further to
the multitude of Weblogs that have emerged in recent years.
Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source
software development community, this book illustrates how
gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other
traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled
millions of users around the world to participate in the online
news publishing process.
Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the
Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is
characterised by an increasingly networked and social structure. In
this environment, professional journalists and non-professional
news users alike are increasingly cast in the role of gatewatcher
and news curator, and sometimes accept these roles with
considerable enthusiasm. A growing part of their everyday
activities takes place within the spaces operated by the major
social media providers, where platform features outside of their
control affect how they can post, find, access, share, curate, and
otherwise engage with news, rumours, analysis, comments, opinion,
and related forms of information. If in the current social media
environment the majority of users are engaged in sharing news; if
the networked structure of these platforms means that users observe
and learn from each other's sharing practices; if these practices
result in the potential for widespread serendipitous news
discovery; and if such news discovery is now overtaking search
engines as the major driver of traffic to news sites-then
gatewatching and news curation are no longer practiced only by
citizen journalists, and it becomes important to fully understand
the typical motivations, practices, and consequences of habitual
news sharing through social media platforms. Professional
journalism and news media have yet to fully come to terms with
these changes. The first wave of citizen media was normalised into
professional journalistic practices-but this book argues that what
we are observing in the present context instead is the
normalisation of professional journalism into social media.
This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014.
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service
to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday
communication as well as for political debates, crisis
communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic
idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages
(tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by
other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international
Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts,
this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts
of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive
overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also
presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their
practical application in different research contexts.
We -- the users turned creators and distributors of content -- are
TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of
the Year 2007. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace,
YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the
development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going
on? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing
participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core
principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation
in environments, from open source through blogs and Wikipedia to
Second Life. This book shows that what's emerging here is no longer
just a new form of content production, but a new process for the
continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by
collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the
gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will
affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and
democracy.
Uses of Blogs brings together scholars and practitioners from a
wide range of fields to offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on
current and emerging uses of blogs. Blogging is rapidly developing
into a mainstream activity for Internet users, but beyond the
popular headlines, there has been very little serious research done
on their actual application in specific, everyday contexts. One
reason for this is that the variety of styles of blogging -- new
blogs and political commentary blogs, marketing blogs, corporate
dark blogs, fictional blogs, educational blogs, to name just a few
-- make it difficult to generalize and to imagine how blogs might
be used in particular environments. This pathbreaking new book
demonstrates the application of blogs and blogging in the full
range of industrial and social contexts.
Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the
Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is
characterised by an increasingly networked and social structure. In
this environment, professional journalists and non-professional
news users alike are increasingly cast in the role of gatewatcher
and news curator, and sometimes accept these roles with
considerable enthusiasm. A growing part of their everyday
activities takes place within the spaces operated by the major
social media providers, where platform features outside of their
control affect how they can post, find, access, share, curate, and
otherwise engage with news, rumours, analysis, comments, opinion,
and related forms of information. If in the current social media
environment the majority of users are engaged in sharing news; if
the networked structure of these platforms means that users observe
and learn from each other's sharing practices; if these practices
result in the potential for widespread serendipitous news
discovery; and if such news discovery is now overtaking search
engines as the major driver of traffic to news sites-then
gatewatching and news curation are no longer practiced only by
citizen journalists, and it becomes important to fully understand
the typical motivations, practices, and consequences of habitual
news sharing through social media platforms. Professional
journalism and news media have yet to fully come to terms with
these changes. The first wave of citizen media was normalised into
professional journalistic practices-but this book argues that what
we are observing in the present context instead is the
normalisation of professional journalism into social media.
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