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The Medium and the Movement: Digital Tools, Social Movement Politics, and the End of the Free Rider Problem
Author(s) -
Tufekci Zeynep
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
policy and internet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.281
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1944-2866
DOI - 10.1002/1944-2866.poi362
Subject(s) - civics , deliberation , citizen journalism , sociology , public sphere , social media , democracy , politics , public relations , social movement , political science , public administration , media studies , law , pedagogy
This is a response to the article by Ethan Zuckerman “New Media, New Civics?” published in this issue of Policy & Internet (2014: vol. 6, issue 2). Dissatisfaction with existing governments, a broad shift to “post‐representative democracy” and the rise of participatory media are leading toward the visibility of different forms of civic participation. Zuckerman's article offers a framework to describe participatory civics in terms of theories of change used and demands places on the participant, and examines some of the implications of the rise of participatory civics, including the challenges of deliberation in a diverse and competitive digital public sphere. Zeynep Tufekci responds.