TY - JOUR
T1 - The rise of information activism: how to bridge dualisms and reconceptualise political participation
AU - Halupka, Max
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - While conventional wisdom sees politics as involving collective
action in the political arena, some contemporary approaches
focus on connective action beyond the political arena. Crucially,
both treat the distinction between arena and process definitions
of politics, and relatedly between collective and connective, as
dualisms. This paper looks to reconceptualise political
participation by arguing that these two dualisms should be
treated as dualities. In doing so, it posits a new form of political
participation, ‘information activism’ and explores it in practice by
drawing on survey data from the 2013 political protests in Turkey.
AB - While conventional wisdom sees politics as involving collective
action in the political arena, some contemporary approaches
focus on connective action beyond the political arena. Crucially,
both treat the distinction between arena and process definitions
of politics, and relatedly between collective and connective, as
dualisms. This paper looks to reconceptualise political
participation by arguing that these two dualisms should be
treated as dualities. In doing so, it posits a new form of political
participation, ‘information activism’ and explores it in practice by
drawing on survey data from the 2013 political protests in Turkey.
KW - computer-mediated communication
KW - e-democracy
KW - information activism
KW - political participation
KW - Politics
KW - web 2.0
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84954122300&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/rise-information-activism-bridge-dualisms-reconceptualise-political-participation
U2 - 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1119872
DO - 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1119872
M3 - Article
SN - 1369-118X
VL - 19
SP - 1487
EP - 1503
JO - Information, Communication and Society
JF - Information, Communication and Society
IS - 10
ER -