Digital Spaces of Civic Communication
The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting
Authors: Mollen, Anne
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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.
- About the authors
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The AuthorAnne Mollen is research assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster and scientific coordinator at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World".
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Online commenting as civic communication
Pages 1-10
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The socio-technical dialectics of online commenting
Pages 13-26
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Theorising the interrelation of interfaces and practices
Pages 27-45
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Strategies and tactics of online commenting
Pages 47-64
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Research design and method
Pages 67-90
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Digital Spaces of Civic Communication
- Book Subtitle
- The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting
- Authors
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- Anne Mollen
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-27515-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-27515-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-27514-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 273
- Number of Illustrations
- 92 b/w illustrations
- Topics
