This volume contributes to the extant and prolific New Agendas in Communication Series from one of the most salient perspectives within the field of Communication: New Technologies and Civic Engagement.
The impact of the Internet and other technological advances are constantly referred to at most junctures of today's Communication research agendas. The area of Political Communication is not immune to this trend. The effects of the Internet and digital media on today's political landscape, with a particular emphasis on enhancing individuals’ civic duties and engagement levels, are theme of concern at many of the most renowned journals in Communication and Political Science disciplines.
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.
Table of Contents:
PART I
Reconceptualizing Citizenship
1. Sampling from the civic buffet: Youth, new media and do-it-yourself citizenship
Kjerstin Thorson
2. Buying in or tuning out: The role of consumption in politically active young adults
Lucy Atkinson
3. Civic Engagement of Youths during their Transition to Adulthood
Roseanne Scholl
4. Social Media and Youth Participation in Singapore
Marko Skoric
5. Social media and their impact on civic participation
Homero Gil de Zúñiga & Saif Shahin
PART II
New Publics and Citizenship
6. Egocentric publics and perceptions of the worlds around us
Hernando Rojas
7. Internet, Ego-Centric Publics and Extremism
Magdalena Wojcieszak
8. In Search of Cognitive Complexity in the Contemporary Public Sphere
Jennifer Brundidge
9. Effects of Online Political Messages on their Senders: Conceptual Tools and Research Directions
Ray Pingree
PART III
Structure of Citizenship
10. ‘Click here to take action’: Action repertoires of youth civic organizations and the changing nature of civic participation
Chris Wells
11. Engaging Audiences via Online News Sites
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Ashley Muddiman & Joshua Scacco
12. Personalization and the Future of News
Matt Hindman
Epilogue
13. What's Next? Three Challenges for the Future of Political Communication Research
Bruce Bimber
