Papacharissi A Private Sphere

Democracy in a Digital Age
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5899-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: DMS - Digital Media and Society

Online technologies excite the public imagination withnarratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium,borne of democracy, but is it democratizing?
Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy,public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and generaldisinterest in conventional political process. And yet, publicinterest in blogging, online news, net-based activism,collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal anelectorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued withpolitical conventions of the mainstream.
This book examines how online digital media shape and are shapedby contemporary democracies, by addressing the followingissues:
* How do online technologies remake how we function as citizensin contemporary democracies?
* What happens to our understanding of public and private asdigitalized democracies converge technologies, spaces andpractices?
* How do citizens of today understand and practice their civicresponsibilities, and how do they compare to citizens of thepast?
* How do discourses of globalization, commercialization andconvergence inform audience/producer, citizen/consumer,personal/political, public/private roles individuals must takeon?
* Are resulting political behaviors atomized or collective?
* Is there a public sphere anymore, and if not, what model ofcivic engagement expresses current tendencies and tensionsbest?
Students and scholars of media studies, political science, andcritical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with someof the most important questions facing democracies today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papacharissi, Zizi A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii
1 Contemporary Democracies, Civic Engagement, and the Media 1
Media and the mythology of the new 7
Old and new democracy 11
The conditions of contemporary democracy 12
A new(er) civic vernacular 15
2 Public and Private Expression in Contemporary Democracies 25
The dichotomy of public and private over time 26
The dichotomy of public and private at present 37
Privacy as commodity 42
A trichotomy: the social 48
3 Converged Media, Converged Audiences, and Converged Publics 51
Convergence in everyday life 53
Convergence of technologies 61
Convergence of spaces 68
Convergence of practices 74
Technology as the architecture of the new 78
4 The Question of Citizenship in a Converged Environment 80
A long history of imperfect citizenship 81
The past and contemporary citizenship modalities 88
The liquid citizen: a combined model of fl exible citizenship 107
5 The Public Sphere, Expired? On the Democratizing Potential of Convergent Technologies 112
The public sphere in contemporary democracies 113
Access to information 120
Reciprocity 121
Commercialization 123
A new kind of public 125
6 A Private Sphere 131
Five new civic habits 138
1 The networked self and the culture of remote connectivity 138
2 A new narcissism: blogging 144
3 The rebirth of satire and subversion: YouTube 150
4 Social media news aggregation and the plurality of collaborative fi ltering 152
5 The agonistic pluralism of online activism 157
The private sphere and the networked citizen 161
References 168
Index 194

Über Autor(innen)

Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago.