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DIY Citizenship

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

DIY Citizenship

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About the book

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.Today, DIY-do-it-yourself-describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's "Twitter revolution" of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternarratives. This book examines the usefulness and limits...Show more

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9780262525527

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

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DIY Citizenship

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Paperback

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