This book addresses the socio-technical constitution of civic communication in increasingly digital democracies. Despite problematic phenomena like hate speech in online commenting, it argues that citizens' potential for resisting technological inscriptions in digital media remains a fundamental democratic right. While producers inscribe anticipations for how people should be discussing political issues into commenting interfaces, citizens still resist these technological inscriptions in their commenting practices. This dialectic interrelation between interfaces and practices highlights the inadequacy of purely technological solutions for undemocratic tendencies in digital media.
Author(s): Anne Mollen
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 283
Tags: Digital Spaces, Civic Communication, Online Commenting
Front Matter ....Pages I-XVII
Online commenting as civic communication (Anne Mollen)....Pages 1-10
Front Matter ....Pages 11-11
The socio-technical dialectics of online commenting (Anne Mollen)....Pages 13-26
Theorising the interrelation of interfaces and practices (Anne Mollen)....Pages 27-45
Strategies and tactics of online commenting (Anne Mollen)....Pages 47-64
Front Matter ....Pages 65-65
Research design and method (Anne Mollen)....Pages 67-90
Meaning through the interface: Setting a frame for online commenting (Anne Mollen)....Pages 91-131
Meaning within practices: Setting the tone for online commenting (Anne Mollen)....Pages 133-178
Meaning within interactions: Constructing the issue in online commenting (Anne Mollen)....Pages 179-226
Conclusion: Digital spaces of civic communication (Anne Mollen)....Pages 227-237
Back Matter ....Pages 239-273
