Cidadania e Media Participativos

Cidadania e Media Participativos 18 12 2009

Cidadania e Media
Participativos
Luís Francisco Pedro
Jorge Ferraz de Abreu
Pedro Almeida

U. Aveiro, U. Porto
ICPD
18.12.2009


#wth?
#desaﬁos
# exemplos


#wth?


"I wouldn't know a twitter from a
tweeter but I know it's important"
Hillary Clinton


Information is the
oxygen of the
modern age (…) the
Goliath of
totalitaranism will be
brought down by the
David of the
microchip.
Ronald Reagan
Junho 1989


It is time to stop the
anarchy on the
Internet.
We cannot allow this
great technological
achievement of man
to be turned into an
information garbage
heap.
Alexander
Lukashenko
Agosto 2007


the practice of citizenship has
conventionally been separated
from entertainment, leisure and
consumption activities. This
interpretation is based on a
traditional but narrow view of
the public sphere that focuses
on political and civic rights and
responsabilities


Public sphere (Habermas, 1992)
universal space where rational
citizens engage in the political
process through critical-
rational deliberation


citizenship is practised as much
through everyday life, leisure,
critical consumption and popular
entertainment as it is through debate
and engagement with capital ‘P’
politics


Public sphere (Habermas, 1996)
The public sphere cannot be
conceived as an institution and
certainly not as an organization (...)
(...) substantive diﬀerentiation of
[multiple] public spheres’ that are not
overdetermined by expert discourses
but that are accessible to laypersons


McGuigan, 2005
exclusion of everyday life,
aﬀect, and pleasure from our
understanding of democratic
participation is a serious
misrecognition of some of the
most powerful modes of citizen
engagement


Deuze (2006)
emerging practices of
participation in new media
contexts

3 conﬁgurations/modes of
engagement


. participation
Becoming an active agent in the
process of meaning-making


. remediation
adopt but modify and thus
reform consensual ways of
understanding reality


. bricolage
reﬂexively assemble our own
particular versions of that reality


community
shifted away from a simplistic
dichotomy between online
(‘virtual cyberspace’) and oﬄine (‘real
life’) modes of communication and
interaction which were previously
seen as distinct and unrelated


Castells (2001)
portfolios of sociability
that is, interwoven networks
of kinship, friends and peers that may
originate from online interaction, are
taken into and continued face-to-face
in the oﬄine world and vice versa


#desaﬁos


Research found
70% believing in the importance of helping
the community,
68% already doing something to support a
cause on a monthly basis
82% describing themselves at least
‘somewhat involved,’
it does seem that the majority of young
people are convinced that supporting a
social cause is something they should do.


there is a strong disparity between interest
and involvement,

an ‘activation gap’


“the broad decline in youth participation
might be better redressed through oﬄine
initiatives, strengthening the opportunities
structures of young people’s lives and the
‘communities of practice’ available to them,
rather than building Web sites which,
though they will engage a few, will struggle
to reach the majority or, more important, to
connect that majority to those with power
over their lives in a manner that young
people themselves judge eﬀective and
consequential.”
Nick Couldry, Livingstone, S. and Markham, T. (2007), 'Connection or
Disconnection? Tracking the Mediated Public Sphere in Everyday Life'
in R. Butsch (ed.) Media and Public Spheres. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 28-42.


“Focus groups with young people suggest a
generation bored with politics, critical
of the online oﬀer, instead interested in
celebrity and conforming to peer
norms.
Young people protest that ‘having your say’
does not seem to mean ‘being listened to’
and so they feel justiﬁed in recognising
little responsibility to participate.”
Sonia Livingstone, Nick Couldry, and Tim Markham, Youthful Steps
Towards Civic Participation: Does the Internet Help? in Young Citizens
in the Digital Age: Political Engagement, Young People and New
Media, ed. Barney Loader (London: Routledge, forthcoming).


It isn’t ‘voice’ if nobody seems
to be listening


This population is both self-guided
and in need of guidance: although
a willingness to learn new media
by point-and-click exploration
might come naturally to today’s
student cohort, there’s nothing
innate about knowing how to
apply their skills to the processes
of democracy (...)


Internet media are not oﬀered as
the solution to young people’s
disengagement from political life,
but as a possibly powerful tool to
be deployed toward helping them
engage

Rheingold, Howard. “Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to
Encourage Civic Engagement." Civic Life Online: Learning How
Digital Media Can Engage Youth. Edited by W. Lance Bennett. The
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital
Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 97–118.


“[t]he policy of ‘targetting’
young people so that they can
‘play their part’ can be read either
as a spur to youth activism or an
attempt to manage it (...)”


(...) Indeed, the very notion of
youth e-citizenship seems to be
caught between divergent
strategies of management and
autonomy...”
Stephen Coleman in Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can
Engage Youth. Edited by W. Lance Bennett. The John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.


#exemplos

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