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  1. Media and global civil society

    Dencik, Lina
    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

    Much analysis and hope in both academia and political rhetoric currently rests on ideas of deliberation and post-national democratic practices -- the roots of a 'global civil society'. This has taken force as not just an analysis of social and political change, but as a normative project. This book has grown out of concern with how changes in media are influencing democratic function and politics in our global age. Lina Dencik argues that counter to much discussion, the very notion of a global civil society needs to be subjected to rigorous critique, given so much of the debate is based on an implicit (and problematic) account of changing conditions, not least within the media. Bridging the gap between different literatures across disciplines and presenting new empirical data on key sites of news production, the book provides a fresh and critical approach to the topical debate on media, globalization and social and political change.

  2. Critical perspectives on social media and protest : between control and emancipation

    London : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015]

    Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader practices of organizing and campaigning. But, aside from the many advantages of extensive mobilization opportunities at low cost, what are the implications of social media corporations being involved in these grassroots movements? This book takes a much-needed critical approach to the relationship between social media and protest. Highlighting key issues and concerns in contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality, the book combines contributions from some of the most active scholars in the field today. Advancing both conceptual and empirical work on social media and protest, and with a range of different angles, the book provides a fresh and challenging outlook on a very topical debate.

  3. Digital citizenship in a datafied society

    Hintz, Arne
    Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, 2019.

    Digitisation has transformed how we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. Conceptions of active digital citizenship must therefore be complemented by an awareness of the monitoring and profiling of citizens. Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society offers a new understanding of citizenship in an age defined by data collection and processing. Hintz, Dencik and Wahl-Jorgensen trace the social forces, as well as the norms and ideologies, which shape digital citizenship. They investigate regulatory frameworks, mediated public debate, citizens' knowledge and understanding, and possibilities for dissent and resistance, as well as the conditions in which digital citizenship is formed and how it might be enhanced in an era of datafication. Drawing on extensive empirical research and deftly connecting debates on digital citizenship, big data and surveillance, this book is indispensable reading for scholars and students of media and communication, technology, politics and surveillance studies, as well as those working with issues of citizenship and social change.Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to fundamentally rethink our understanding of digital citizenship, based on an awareness of the ways in which citizens are increasingly monitored, categorized, sorted and profiled. Drawing on extensive empirical research, Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society offers a new understanding of citizenship in an age defined by data collection and processing. The book traces the social forces that shape digital citizenship by investigating regulatory frameworks, mediated public debate, citizens' knowledge and understanding, and possibilities for dissent and resistance.

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