DIY citizenship : critical making and social media

DIY citizenship : critical making and social media /

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ratto, Matt, 1969- (Editor), Boler, Megan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Citizenship.
Civil society.
Political participation.
Social media.
Social Media
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of 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 Difference
  • 8 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 Citizenship
  • 15 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 Participation
  • 22 "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 Spaces
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.

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