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DIY citizenship, critical making and social media, edited by Matt Ratto and Megan Boler

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

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non fiction

DIY citizenship

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edited by Matt Ratto and Megan Boler

critical making and social media

Today, DIY--do-it-yourself--describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's “Twitter revolution” of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternarratives. This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and “critical making” that have emerged in recent years. The authors and artists in this collection describe DIY citizens whose activities range from activist fan blogging and video production to knitting and the creation of community gardens. Contributors examine DIY activism, describing new modes of civic engagement that include Harry Potter fan activism and the activities of the Yes Men. They consider DIY making in learning, culture, hacking, and the arts, including do-it-yourself media production and collaborative documentary making. They discuss DIY and design and how citizens can unlock the black box of technological infrastructures to engage and innovate open and participatory critical making. And they explore DIY and media, describing activists' efforts to remake and reimagine media and the public sphere. As these chapters make clear, DIY is characterized by its emphasis on “doing” and making rather than passive consumption. DIY citizens assume active roles as interventionists, makers, hackers, modders, and tinkerers, in pursuit of new forms of engaged and participatory democracy. --, From Amazon

DIY and activism: new modes of civic engagement and participatory politics -- Maktivism: authentic making for technology in the service of humanity / Steve Mann -- (Re)making the internet: free software and the social factory hack / Kate Milberry -- Fan activism as participatory politics: the case of the Harry Potter alliance / Henry Jenkins -- Radical inclusion? Locating accountability in technical DIY / Christina Dunbar-Hester -- Proportionate ID cards: prototyping for privacy and accountability / Brenda McPhail, Andrew Clement, Karen Louise Smith, Jennette Weber, Joseph Ferenbok, and Alex Tichine -- Developing communities of resistance? Maker pedagogies, do-it-yourself feminism, and DIY citizenship / Red Chidgey --Rethinking media activism through fan blogging: how Stewart and Colbert fans make a difference / Catherine Burwell and Megan Boler -- Just say yes: DIY-ing the yes men / Ian Reilly -- DIY and making: learning, culture, hacking, and arts -- DIY citizenship, critical making, and community / Kate Orton-Johnson -- Melange of making: bringing children's informal learning cultures to the classroom / Alexandra Bal, Jason Nolan, and Yukari Seko -- Power struggles: knowledge production in a DIY news club / Jennifer Jenson, Negin Dahya, and Stephanie Fisher -- Transparency reconsidered: creative, critical, and connected making with e-textiles / Yasmin B. Kafai and Kylie A. Peppler -- Woven futures: inscribed material ecologies of critical making / Daniela K. Rosner and Miki Foster -- Making publics: documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship / Mandy Rose -- Mirror images: avatar aesthetics and self-representation in digital games / Suzanne de Castell -- DIY and design: opening the black box and repurposing technologies -- Textual doppelgangers: critical issues in the study of technology / Matt Ratto -- The growbot garden project as DIY speculation through design / Carl DiSalvo -- Doing it in the cloud: Google, Apple, and the shaping of DIY culture / Michael Murphy, David J. Phillips, and Karen Pollock -- Citizen innovation: ActiveEnergy and the quest for sustainable design / Ann Light -- Le champ des possibles the field of possibilities / Owen McSwiney and Emily Rose Michaud -- Distributed design: media technologies and the architechture of participation / Joel McKim -- "I hate your politics but I love your diamonds": citizenship and the off-topic message board subforum / Lana Swartz and Kevin Driscoll -- DIY and media: redistributing authority and sources in news media -- Redesigning the vox pop: civic rituals as sites of critical reimagining / Joshua McVeigh-Schultz -- Alternative media production, feminism, and citizenship practices / Rosa Reitsamer and Elke Zobl -- Alternative media, the mundane, and "everyday citizenship" / Chris Atton -- Critical news making and the paradox of "do-it-yourself news" / Mike Ananny -- Social media, visibility, and activism: the Kony 2012 campaign / Graham Meikle -- A digital democracy or twenty-first-century tyranny? CNN's iReport and the future of citizenship in virtual spaces / Devan Bissonette