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Engaging Citizens: A Review of Approaches to Civic Engagement
Twenty years ago, Robert Putnam wrote about the rise of “bowling alone,” a metaphor for people participating in activities as individuals instead of groups that can lead to community. This led to the decline in social capital in America. The … Continue reading
Posted in Civic design, Civic engagement, Motivation, Social media
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Digital Labour and Karl Marx
How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and “social media” such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital labour, Digital technologies, Information, Marx, Social media
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Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural materialism, Culture, Economy, Fuchs, Social media
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Modern Communities of Practice: Building, Maintaining and Measuring Impact
Modern communities of practice (CoP) built on a foundation of technology and social media are emerging on a global scale. Considering the speed at which technology evolves, best practices also continue to evolve for building, maintaining and measuring the effectiveness … Continue reading
Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers. But overall, it has diminished rather than enhanced political participation, according to new data. Social media, like Twitter and Facebook, has the effect of tamping down diversity of opinion … Continue reading
How Social are Social Media Technologies ?
This study investigated how 20 university students described their collective and individual learning experiences using social media technologies (SMTs). Data consisted of transcribed focus group discussions, which were analysed for students’ use of first person singular and plural pronouns as … Continue reading
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Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet
An accessible guide to the enduring struggle between people and power in the digital age. Egypt’s January 25. Revolution of 2011 was a dramatic demonstration of the role social media has come to play in radical activism. A key moment … Continue reading
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Growth of Collective Intelligence by Linking Knowledge Workers through Social Media
Collective intelligence can be defined, very broadly, as groups of individuals that do things collectively, and that seem to be intelligent. Collective intelligence has existed for ages. Families, tribes, companies, countries, etc., are all groups of individuals doing things collectively, … Continue reading
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It’s Complicated – The Social Lives of Networked Teens
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major … Continue reading
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Five Myths About Young People and Social Media
Teenagers have always been attracted to public spaces where they can hang out with friends, find new friends, and talk endlessly with peers about matters that concern them, away from parents and other authority figures. Such gatherings are crucial to … Continue reading
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