Gamer Citizens

Author : Ilya Brookwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040038956

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Gamer Citizens by Ilya Brookwell Pdf

This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age with an in-depth study of the communities of gamers who populate live-video streaming sites. This text offers an innovative theoretical and methodological study of gamers in their community. It explores gamers as citizens and asks how gamers are political in view of their activities on stream. Ilya Brookwell examines how gamers live out their daily lives on live-video streams and how they use their associated new platforms and tools, including live-video streams such as Twitch.tv and online web fora, to engage with “live-video politics”. It explores the relationship between gamers, gaming, and streaming, highlighting how gamers develop a notion of self that is fundamentally located in community. Gamers consequently create, inhabit, as well as inherit a political world. With streaming communities offering unique insights into what it means to live in a digital age, the book explores how gamers find hopeful openings, as well as limits, through streaming. The book highlights how gamers can take an active role in politics and democracy in a digital age. Interesting reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers, and academics of media, cultural and communication studies, video game studies, and digital media studies.

Author : Yilly Vanessa Pacheco,Dulce Lopes
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783863955854

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European Citizens’ Initiative: A Tool for Engagement and Active Citizenship by Yilly Vanessa Pacheco,Dulce Lopes Pdf

This publication gathers contributions to understand better and further develop the European Citizens’ Initiative. This participatory and agenda-setting tool introduced into the Treaty of Lisbon has not yet reached its full potential of citizen engagement, nor has it driven the significant policy changes initially expected. Bearing this in mind, the project ECI: From A to Z aimed to promote the knowledge and use of the European Citizens’ Initiative within the higher education arena by engaging investigators and students from four different Universities (University of Coimbra; Georg-August University of Göttingen; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi and the University of Vigo) to work together to share their concerns and common views on the European Union role and policies. This publication describes the methodology followed and results reached under the project, but more than that, it is a practical toolkit for all who wish to know more about the European Citizens’ Initiative and how to put it in motion.

Author : Megan L. Musgrave
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137581730

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Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Literature by Megan L. Musgrave Pdf

This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their identities and choices as citizens in a digital culture

Author : Marcus Foth,Laura Forlano,Christine Satchell,Martin Gibbs
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262297554

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From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen by Marcus Foth,Laura Forlano,Christine Satchell,Martin Gibbs Pdf

Studies from around the world show how the social media tools of Web 2.0 are shaping engagement with cities, communities, and spaces. Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific features as sensors and GPS. From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen examines how this increasingly open, collaborative, and personalizable technology is shaping not just our social interactions but new kinds of civic engagement with cities, communities, and spaces. It offers analyses and studies from around the world that explore how the power of social technologies can be harnessed for social engagement in urban areas. Chapters by leading researchers in the emerging field of urban informatics outline the theoretical context of their inquiries, describing a new view of the city as a hybrid that merges digital and physical worlds; examine technology-aided engagement involving issues of food, the environment, and sustainability; explore the creative use of location-based mobile technology in cities from Melbourne, Australia, to Dhaka, Bangladesh; study technological innovations for improving civic engagement; and discuss design research approaches for understanding the development of sentient real-time cities, including interaction portals and robots.

Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : CHI:78118322

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Journal by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives Pdf

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Author : Carrie Rogers-Whitehead
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475848274

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Digital Citizenship by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead Pdf

This title brings together original research on digital citizenship from working with hundreds of K-12 students. This readable guide includes sample lesson plans, worksheets, suggestions of teaching models, assessment tools and more. With this book, any educator can help bring digital citizenship to their students, colleagues and organization.

Author : Joni Adamson,Kimberly N. Ruffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135078836

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American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship by Joni Adamson,Kimberly N. Ruffin Pdf

This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin recover underrecognized field genealogies in American Studies (i.e. the work of early scholars whose scope was transnational and whose activism focused on race, class and gender) and ecocriticism (i.e. the work of movement leaders, activists and scholars concerned with environmental justice whose work predates the 1990s advent of the field). They stress the necessity of a confluence of intellectual traditions, or "interdisciplinarities," in meeting the challenges presented by the "anthropocene," a new era in which human beings have the power to radically endanger the planet or support new approaches to transnational, national and ecological citizenship. Contributors to the collection examine literary, historical, and cultural examples from the 19th century to the 21st. They explore notions of the common—namely, common humanity, common wealth, and common ground—and the relation of these notions to often conflicting definitions of who (or what) can have access to "citizenship" and "rights." The book engages in scholarly ecological analysis via the lens of various human groups—ethnic, racial, gendered, coalitional—that are shaping twenty-first century environmental experience and vision. Read together, the essays included in American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship create a "methodological commons" where environmental justice case studies and interviews with activists and artists living in places as diverse as the U.S., Canada, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and the Navajo Nation, can be considered alongside literary and social science analysis that contributes significantly to current debates catalyzed by nuclear meltdowns, oil spills, hurricanes, and climate change, but also by hopes for a common future that will ensure the rights of all beings--human and nonhuman-- to exist, maintain, and regenerate life cycles and evolutionary processes

Author : Silva, Carlos Nunes
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466641709

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Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity by Silva, Carlos Nunes Pdf

The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens. Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity explores the nature of the new challenges confronting citizens and local governments in the field of urban governance. This comprehensive reference source explores the role that Web 2.0 technologies play in promoting citizen participation and empowerment in the city government and is intended for scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of urban studies, urban planning, political science, public administration, and more.

Author : Gerry Patnode
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1600373097

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Strategic Citizen by Gerry Patnode Pdf

This guides premise is that citizens are at a disadvantage when seeking political favor or political change. Politics is a contact sport with specific rules of engagement, and this work explains those rules in a clear, uncomplicated manner.

Author : Vincent Farenga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139456784

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Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece by Vincent Farenga Pdf

This 2006 study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades and Socrates' moral individualism.

Author : Jens Hoff,Quentin Gausset
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317458425

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Community Governance and Citizen-Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation by Jens Hoff,Quentin Gausset Pdf

One of the most heartening developments in climate change mitigation in recent years has been the increasing attention paid to the principle of ‘thinking globally and acting locally’. The failure of the international community to reach significant global agreements on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has led local governments, environmental organisations and citizens themselves to focus increasingly on the local possibilities for action on climate change. This book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the co-production of climate policies that take place where citizen engagement and local initiatives converge with public agencies. Case studies from Northern Europe, Australia/New Zealand and the USA reveal that traditional individualist approaches to promoting environmental behaviour epitomised by information campaigns and economic incentives cannot trigger the deep behavioural changes required to materially improve our response to climate change. Only by marshalling the forces of thousands, and eventually millions of citizens, can we manage to reach environmental sceptics, reinforce political action and create the new social norms that are sorely needed in our local, and global, response to climate change. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in climate change politics and governance, community engagement and sustainable development.

Author : Óscar Mealha,Monica Divitini,Matthias Rehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319613222

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Citizen, Territory and Technologies: Smart Learning Contexts and Practices by Óscar Mealha,Monica Divitini,Matthias Rehm Pdf

This book gathers a selection of the articles accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Developments (SLERD 2017), held 22–23 June What characterizes smart learning ecosystems? What is their role in city and regional development and innovation? How can we promote the engagement of citizens in smart learning ecosystems? These are some of the questions addressed at SLERD 2017 and documented here. The proceedings include scientific papers that endeavor to understand, devise and promote innovative human-centric design and development methods, education/training practices, informal social learning, and citizen-driven policies. The individual papers elaborate on the notion of smart learning ecosystems, study the relation of smart learning ecosystems with As such, they help to foster the social innovation sectors, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and economic development and deployment strategies, alongside new policies for smarter, proactive citizens – making them a valuable resource for researchers and policymakers alike.

Author : Anita Schroven
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201901

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Playing the Marginality Game by Anita Schroven Pdf

In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015011183830

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Effective Citizen Participation in Transportation Planning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mona Baker,Bolette B. Blaagaard,Henry Jones,Luis Pérez-González
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 931 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317215066

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media by Mona Baker,Bolette B. Blaagaard,Henry Jones,Luis Pérez-González Pdf

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas. Citizen media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effect aesthetic or socio-political change. The seventy-seven entries featured in this pioneering resource provide a rigorous overview of extant scholarship, deliver a robust critique of key research themes and anticipate new directions for research on a variety of topics. Cross-references and recommended reading suggestions are included at the end of each entry to allow scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to identify relevant connections across diverse areas of citizen media scholarship and explore further avenues of research. Featuring contributions by leading scholars and supported by an international panel of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in media studies, social movement studies, performance studies, political science and a variety of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. It will also be of interest to non-academics involved in activist movements and those working to effect change in various areas of social life.