Democracy 2.0

Media, Political Literacy and Critical Engagement
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6351-229-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Critical Media Literacies Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carr, Paul R

Hoechsmann, Michael

Thésée, Gina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Medienpädagogik, Mediendidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: It’s a Post-Truth World After All xi
Shirley R. Steinberg

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Democracy 2.0, Old and New Media, and the Quest for Engaged Participation xv

Michael Hoechsmann, Paul R. Carr, and Gina Thésée

Section 1: Democracy and Mediatized Participation

1. Technocracy, Education, and the Global Imperative 3

Peter Pericles Trifonas

2. Voluntary Subservience and Capitalist Religion in the Era of Reality Television Politics 13

William M. Reynolds

3. The Development of Democratic Citizenship within the Context of Education for Latin American Unification:
Media Literacy 2.0, from Classroom Praxis to Critical
Engagement 27

Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon and Felipe de Jesús Alatorre Rodríguez

4. Digital Citizens, Not Just Consumers: Defining Digital Citizenship for Democracy 49

Megan Ryland

5. Engagement with the Mainstream Media and the Relationship to Political Literacy: The Influence of Hegemonic Education on Democracy 65

Paul R. Carr, Gary W. J. Pluim, and Lauren Howard

Section 2: Contexts of Contested Notions of Democracy and Media

6. Embodiment as Discourse in Indigenous Photography: Narrative as Multiplicitous Reality 85

Kalli Paakspuu

7. The Role of Social Media in Africa’s Democratic Transitions: Lessons from Burundi 109

Anne Munene and Ibrahim Magara

8. Critical Pedagogy through Participatory Video: Possibilities for Post-Colonial Higher Education in the Caribbean 127

Lynette Sampson

9. Community-Driven Media in Australia: The Public Pedagogy of Australian Indigenous Activism 147

Renee Desmarchelier, Jon Austin, and Cally Jetta

10. The Battle for Free Universal Education in Chile: Using YouTube in the Student Protests of 2011 165

Salomé Sola-Morales

11. The #Ocupaescola (#Occupyschool) Movement: Counter-Hegemonic Media and New Ways to Fight for Education 181

Ivan Bomfim

12. “Democracy! Not Just for Locals But for Us Too!”: Exploring Multi-Ethnic Young People’s Calls for Social Change in Hong Kong through Cellphilms 195

Casey Burkholder

Afterword: Danger Ahead: Ready Yourself and Join the Struggle 213

Peter McLaren

Author Biographies 219

Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Paul R. Carr is a Full Professor in the Department of Education at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada, and is also the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education.

Michael Hoechsmann is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University (Orillia).

Gina Thésée is a Full Professor in the Department of Education and Pedagogy at University of Quebec à Montreal (UQAM) in Montreal, Canada.