The book examines the highly dynamic political ecology of recent contentious politics and its expanding digital footprint. First, it looks at the attainment of democratic citizenship through practice as street protests attract substantial numbers of followers who narrate their involvement or reflect on the claims and the implications of collective action on social media. Secondly, it considers the ramifications for contemporary democracy arising from the large-scale uptake of social media by variegated protest networks, which no longer pivot on the coordination capacity of bureaucratic movement organizations. The book ties these aspects together to propose that contentious politics can be a fertile ground for progressive civic participation.
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1 Introduction: The Networked Communication of Contentious Politics |
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1 | (34) |
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Liberal Democracy, Contentious Politics and Citizenship |
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6 | (4) |
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Democratic Citizenship: From Norm to Practice |
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8 | (2) |
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A Double Bind: The Individualisation of Participation and the Digital Aura of Collective Action |
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10 | (6) |
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11 | (2) |
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The Digital Aura of Collective Action |
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13 | (3) |
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16 | (19) |
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35 | (32) |
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Social Movement Organisations and Action Repertoires |
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36 | (3) |
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The Rise of the `Save Rosia Montana' Campaign |
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39 | (6) |
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Stunted Civic Participation and Environmentalism in Romania |
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41 | (4) |
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The Camp for Climate Action: Building Autonomy on the Shoulders of a Broad Movement |
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45 | (4) |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (2) |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (11) |
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3 Digital Prefigurative Participation |
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67 | (34) |
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68 | (2) |
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The Three Dimensions of Digital Prefigurative Participation |
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70 | (6) |
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72 | (3) |
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75 | (1) |
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The Empirical Treatment of Digital Prefigurative Participation |
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76 | (13) |
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78 | (5) |
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83 | (3) |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (12) |
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101 | (26) |
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Social Network Site Usage and Mobilisation |
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102 | (5) |
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Protest Participation Against the Odds? |
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107 | (4) |
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Experience, Mobilisation and Collective Identity |
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111 | (5) |
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116 | (11) |
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127 | (30) |
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The Participatory Culture of Social Media |
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128 | (1) |
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The Shifting Terrain of Social Movement Organisation |
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129 | (3) |
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The Organisational Precedents of Distributed Decision-Making |
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132 | (3) |
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From Mobilisation to Decision-Making: An Unlikely Path |
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135 | (9) |
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137 | (4) |
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141 | (3) |
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144 | (13) |
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6 Participatory Coordination |
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157 | (34) |
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Theorising Participatory Coordination |
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160 | (5) |
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Putting the Theory to the Test |
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165 | (5) |
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Participatory Coordination: A Pragmatic Undertaking |
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170 | (9) |
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179 | (12) |
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7 Informal Civic Learning |
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191 | (28) |
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Stop ACTA and Cosmopolitan Citizenship |
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192 | (1) |
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Civic Literacy and Learning |
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193 | (6) |
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Patterns of Civic Information on Facebook and Twitter |
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199 | (7) |
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Intertextual Civic Discourse on Facebook and Twitter |
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206 | (4) |
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210 | (9) |
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8 Conclusion: Civic Participation in Contentious Politics |
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219 | (8) |
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Dan Mercea is Lecturer in Sociology at City University London, UK, and Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Media and Communications. He has a lasting interest in the media and communication practices of groups, individuals and organisations involved in protest events. He has published on this topic in the Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, Information, Communication and Society, The Communication Review and Convergence. He has also edited two collections on the use of digital media in democratic politics.
