Activism and Digital Culture in Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activism and Digital Culture in Australia write by Debbie Rodan. This book was released on 2017-11-24. Activism and Digital Culture in Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Activists use digital as well as mainstream media tools to attract supporters, advertise their campaigns, and raise awareness of issues in the broader community. Activism and Digital Culture in Australia examines the use of digital tools and culture by Australian and international activist organisations to facilitate public engagement, participation and deliberation in issues and advance social change. In particular the book engages media studies, cultural studies, social theory and various ethical and political philosophical perspectives to examine the use of digital multi-platform tools by activist organisations and advocates for social change to a) disseminate information and raise public awareness; b) invoke, inform and shape public debate through the provision of information and invocation of affect; and c) garner public support (including funding) for issues and for associated social change. Engaging both qualitative and quantitative approaches, these case studies will demonstrate the richness of digital culture for activism and advocacy, examining the use by activist organisations of such digital media tools as apps, blogging, Facebook, RSS, Twitter, and YouTube. The shows that digital culture offers productive mechanisms and spaces for the reshaping of society itself to take more of a participatory role in progressing social change.
Negotiating Digital Citizenship
Negotiating Digital Citizenship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Digital Citizenship write by Anthony McCosker. This book was released on 2016-10-12. Negotiating Digital Citizenship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges the assumptions behind the idea of digital citizenship in order to turn the attention to cases of innovation, social change and public good.
Indigenous Digital Life
Indigenous Digital Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous Digital Life write by Bronwyn Carlson. This book was released on 2021-10-04. Indigenous Digital Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Settler societies habitually frame Indigenous people as ‘a people of the past’—their culture somehow ‘frozen’ in time, their identities tied to static notions of ‘authenticity’, and their communities understood as ‘in decline’. But this narrative erases the many ways that Indigenous people are actively engaged in future-orientated practice, including through new technologies. Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of Indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes—including identity, community, hate, desire and death—we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indigenous on social media. Rather than reproducing settler narratives of Indigenous ‘deficiency’, we approach Indigenous social media as a space of Indigenous action, production, and creativity; we see Indigenous social media users as powerful agents, who interact with and shape their immediate worlds with skill, flair and nous; and instead of being ‘a people of the past’, we show that Indigenous digital life is often future-orientated, working towards building better relations, communities and worlds. This book offers new ideas, insights and provocations for both students and scholars of Indigenous studies, media and communication studies, and cultural studies.
Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture
Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture write by Anthony Bak Buccitelli. This book was released on 2017-11-10. Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unprecedented study, leading scholars and emerging voices from around the world consider how race and ethnicity continue to shape our everyday lives, even as digital technology seems to promise a release from our "real" social identities. How do people use the new expressive features of digital technologies to experience, represent, discuss, and debate racial and ethnic identity? How have digital technologies or digital spaces become racialized? How have the existing vernacular traditions, or folklore, surrounding identity been reshaped in digital spaces? And how have new traditions emerged? This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores the role of traditional culture in the evolving expressions, practices, and images of race and ethnicity in the digital age. The work examines cultural forms in exclusively digital environments as well as in the hybrid environments created by mobile technologies, where real life becomes overlaid with digital content. Insights from academics across disciplines—including anthropology, communications, folkloristics, art, and sociology—consider the interplay between race/ethnicity, everyday vernacular culture, and digital technologies. Six sections explore traditional cultural affordances of technology, folklore and digital applications, visual cultures of race and ethnicity, racism and exclusion online, political activism and race, and concluding observations. The book covers technologies such as vlogs, video games, digital photography, messaging applications, social media sites, and the Internet.
Digital Media in Urban China
Digital Media in Urban China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital Media in Urban China write by Wilfred Yang Wang. This book was released on 2019-10-04. Digital Media in Urban China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the use and culture of digital media in Chinese cities. By examining examples and data from Chinese and global social media platforms, the book argues that digital media facilitate Chinese people’s sense of local self and local identity. In doing so, the book moves on from the polarised debate regarding the democratic function of Chinese internet to instead examine the connection between digital technologies and the country’s history, culture and eventually, people and their everyday lives. It offers a rich analysis of a Chinese city in the digital age, and challenges the nationalistic approach to study China’s digital media culture.
