New Technologies and Civic Engagement: New Agendas in Communication

Homero Gil de Zúñiga

2015

Type
book
Region
Sector
Politics
Category
Citizen Engagement and Crowdsourcing
Methodology
Conceptual Framework
Objective
Effectiveness, Legitimacy, Participation

Abstract

First, this book pays attention to the overall impact of the Internet and people's use of digital media and new technologies to analyze civic life at large, reconceptualizing what citizenship is today. Secondly, and more specifically, participants shed light over the intersection of a number of current new agendas of research in regards to some of the most rapidly growing technological advances (i.e., new publics and citizenship), and the emergence of sprouting structures of citizenship. The volume shows the implications that new technological advances carry with respect the possibilities, patterns and mechanisms for citizen communication, citizen deliberation, public sphere and civic engagement.