DIY citizenship : critical making and social media / / edited by Matt Ratto and Megan Boler

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (461 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.6
• Soggetto topico: Citizenship; Civil society; Political participation; Social media
• Soggetto non controllato: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General; INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory
• Persona (resp. second.): RattoMatt <1969->; BolerMegan
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I DIY and Activism: New Modes of Civic Engagement and Participatory Politics; 1 Maktivism: Authentic Making for Technology in the Service of Humanity; 2 (Re)making the Internet: Free Software and the Social Factory Hack; 3 Fan Activism as Participatory Politics: The Case of the Harry Potter Alliance; 4 Radical Inclusion? Locating Accountability in Technical DIY; 5 Proportionate ID Cards: Prototyping for Privacy and Accountability; 6 Developing Communities of Resistance? Maker Pedagogies, Do-It-Yourself Feminism, and DIY Citizenship ; 7 Rethinking Media Activism through Fan Blogging: How Stewart and Colbert Fans Make a Difference8 Just Say Yes: DIY-ing the Yes Men; II DIY and Making: Learning, Culture, Hacking, and Arts; 9 DIY Citizenship, Critical Making, and Community; 10 Mélange of Making: Bringing Children's Informal Learning Cultures to the Classroom; 11 Power Struggles: Knowledge Production in a DIY News Club; 12 Transparency Reconsidered: Creative, Critical, and Connected Making with E-textiles; 13 Woven Futures: Inscribed Material Ecologies of Critical Making ; 14 Making Publics: Documentary as Do-It-with-Others Citizenship15 Mirror Images: Avatar Aesthetics and Self-Representation in Digital Games; III DIY and Design: Opening the Black Box and Repurposing Technologies; 16 Textual Doppelgangers: Critical Issues in the Study of Technology; 17 The Growbot Garden Project as DIY Speculation through Design; 18 Doing It in the Cloud: Google, Apple, and the Shaping of DIY Culture; 19 Citizen Innovation: Active Energy and the Quest for Sustainable Design; 20 Le Champ des Possibles-The Field of Possibilities ; 21 Distributed Design: Media Technologies and the Architecture of Participation22 "I hate your politics but I love your diamonds": Citizenship and the Off-Topic Message Board Subforum; IV DIY and Media: Redistributing Authority and Sources in News Media; 23 Redesigning the Vox Pop: Civic Rituals as Sites of Critical Reimagining; 24 Alternative Media Production, Feminism, and Citizenship Practices; 25 Alternative Media, the Mundane, and "Everyday Citizenship"; 26 Critical News Making and the Paradox of "Do-It-Yourself News"; 27 Social Media, Visibility, and Activism: The Kony 2012 Campaign ; 28 A Digital Democracy or Twenty-First-Century Tyranny? CNN's iReport and the Future of Citizenship in Virtual SpacesList of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
• Titolo autorizzato: DIY citizenship
• ISBN: 0-262-32122-X; 0-262-32121-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789034603321
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