Donnerstag, 06. November 2014, 12:00 - 14:00 iCal
Social Media & Political Culture
Social Media, Political Culture & Civic Participation. Ein Vortrag von Dr. Bridgette Wessels, University of Sheffield, UK
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 7. Stock, Konferenzraum 7.03
Währinger Straße 29, 1090 Wien
Vortrag
The talk will address how social media interacts with political culture in shaping different types of civic participation. The research addresses the destabilisation of political communication in the context of the current concern about the viability of existing democratic process for a socially diverse - and globalising – networked society (Dahlgren, 2005; Castells, 2009). A key feature of such a society is social media, which is part of a communication environment that involves public institutions, NGOS, VCOs, and individuals and groups in civil society. The talk will focus on the communication aspects of civic participation and political culture at local, national and international levels. I will adopt a ‘connected approach’ (Hine, 2008, 2012), which means I will explore the relationship between online and offline worlds in civic participation. The talk will contribute to understanding how individuals and communities can voice their concerns and how this sits across a continuum across pluralistic deliberation to a bunkering in of opinion. It explores the ways in which political culture in local, national, and international contexts influences the communicative behaviour of people both offline and online, which will inform democratic process at local, national and international levels. A distinctive feature of this talk is that it will note the way the design of a digital application is influential in the use of digital communication in different contexts.
Veranstalter
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Universität Wien
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Kontakt
Mag. Mario Lick
Universität Wien
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
+43-1-4277-49306
mario.lick@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Mittwoch, 05. November 2014, 10:29
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 05. November 2014, 13:05