Democracy 2.0 : media, political literacy, and critical engagement / edited by Paul R. Carr, Michael Hoechsmann, and Gina Thesee ; foreword by Shirley R. Steinberg ; afterword by Peter McLaren.
Introduction : democracy 2.0, old and new media, and the quest for engaged participation / Michael Hoechsmann, Paul R. Carr and Gina Thesee -- Technocracy, education, and the global imperative / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Voluntary subservience and capitalist religion in the era of reality television politics / William M. Reynolds -- The development of democratic citizenship within the context of education for Latin American unification : media literacy 2.0, from classroom praxis to critical engagement / Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon and Felipe de Jesus Alatorre Rodriguez -- Digital citizens, not just consumers : defining digital citizenship for democracy / Megan Ryland -- Engagement with the mainstream media and the relationship to political literacy the influence of hegemonic education on democracy / Paul R. Carr, Gary W.J. Pluim and Lauren Howard -- Embodiment as discourse in indigenous photography : narrative as multiplicitous reality / Kalli Paakspuu -- The role of social media in Africa's democratic transitions : lessons from Burundi / Anne Munene and Ibrahim Magara -- Critical pedagogy through participatory video : possibilities for post-colonial higher education in the Caribbean / Lynette Sampson -- Community-driven media in Australia : the public pedagogy of Australian indigenous activism / Renee Desmarchelier, Jon Austin and Cally Jetta -- The battle for free universal education in Chile : the use of Youtube in the student protests of 2011 / Salome Sola-Morales -- The #ocupaescola ("#occupyschool") movement : counter-hegemonic media and new ways to fight for education / Ivan Bomfim -- "Democracy! not just for locals but for us too!" : exploring multiethnic young people's calls for social change in Hong Kong through cellphilms / Casey Burkholder -- Afterword : danger ahead ready yourself and join the struggle / Peter McLaren.
Summary:
"Participatory media 2.0 have shifted the terrain of public life. We are all--individually and collectively--able to produce and circulate media to a potentially limitless audience, and we are all, at minimum, arbiters of knowledge and information through the choices--or clicks--we make when online. In this new environment of two-way and multidimensional media flow, digital communication tools, platforms and spaces offer enormous potential for the cultivation, development and circulation of diverse and counter-hegemonic perspectives. It has also provoked a crisis of communication between oppositional "echo chambers." Democracy requires a functioning, critically-engaged and literate populace, one that can participate in, cultivate and shape, in meaningful and critical ways, the discourses and forms of the society in which it exists. Education for democracy, therefore, requires not only political literacy but also media and digital literacies, given the ubiquity and immersiveness of Media 2.0 in our lives. In Democracy 2.0, we feature a series of evocative, international case studies that document the impact of alternative and community use of media, in general, and Web 2.0 in particular. The aim is to foster critical reflection on social realities, developing the context for coalition-building in support of social change and social justice. The chapters herein examine activist uses of social and visual media within a broad and critical frame, underpinning the potential of alternative and DIY (Do It Yourself) media to impact and help forge community relationships, to foster engagement in the civic and social life of citizens across the globe and, ultimately, to support thicker forms of democratic participation, engagement and conscientization, beyond electoralist, representative, normative democracy" -- From the publisher.
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