scholarly journals The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Yerkebulan Sairambay
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN INTERNET TERHADAP PENINGKATAN PARTISIPASI POLITIK DAN KEHIDUPAN DEMOKRASI

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reny Yuliati
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
Media Democracy

Internet is a medium that become increasingly in demand by society from different circle. With the Internet as new media brings some changes on how people can voice their aspirations. The purpose of this article is to look at the advantages of new media in enhancing political participation and democracy compared with traditional media. With the new media, we have a great hope in democracy in Indonesia as long as government and citizens use it wisely. Keywords: new media, democracy, political participation

Issues of Digital Disempowerment and New Media Networking (NMN) in Relation to E-Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 92-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Hacker ◽  
Eric L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Emerging Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Emerging media technologies are increasingly reconfiguring the public sphere by creating new spaces for political dialogue. E-democracy (digital democracy) and e-government can be usefully served by these emerging technologies; however, their existence does not automatically equate to increased political participation. There is still a need to develop specific and theoretically-oriented approaches to a newly reconfigured public sphere. Employing a structurational perspective, this essay addresses the relationship between political participation, emerging media, new media networking, and e-democracy. While new media networking increases the potential for political participation, depending on various factors such as access, usage and skills, the potential exists for increasing disempowerment as well. The chapter concludes with recommendations for the use of new media networking in ways that enhance e-democracy.

scholarly journals Gaali cultures: The politics of abusive exchange on social media

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1506-1522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahana Udupa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Online Abuse ◽  
New Media Studies

On the rapidly expanding social media in India, online users are witness to a routine exchange of abusive terms and accusations with choicest swearwords hurled even for the seemingly non-inflammatory political debates. This article draws upon anthropology of insult to uncover the distinctness, if at all, of online abuse as a means for political participation as well as for the encumbering it provokes and relations of domination it reproduces as a result. In so doing, the article critiques the conception of ludic as anti-hegemonic in the Bakhtin tradition, and develops an emic term “gaali” to signal the blurred boundaries between comedy, insult, shame, and abuse emerging on online media, which also incite gendered forms of intimidation. Gaali, it argues, is best conceptualized through the metaphor of “sound” as distinct from what recent new media studies theorize as “voice.”

The politics of musical activism: Western YouTube reception of Pussy Riot’s punk performances

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-306
Author(s):  
Frank Weij ◽  
Pauwke Berkers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
The Political ◽  
Semantic Network Analysis ◽  
Political Music ◽  
Music And Politics ◽  
Pussy Riot ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Various scholars have studied the relationship between music and politics. Most, however, focus on how governments and political parties on the one hand and movements and activists on the other use music for political outcomes and in doing so they often ignore the more latent forms of political participation music can lead to. This article, therefore, focuses on how people give meaning to political music in informal conversational settings by exploring the reception of Pussy Riot on YouTube. New media platforms like YouTube are ubiquitous in the West and as ‘third spaces’ they allow audiences to publicly reflect on everyday newsworthy events and activism. We combine the computerized methods of topic modelling and semantic network analysis to study both quantitatively and qualitatively how Pussy Riot’s punk protests afford political participation by (Western) YouTube users. Results show that the comments mostly address (1) the geopolitical boundaries of activism, (2) the legitimacy and commitment of the activists, (3) the political content of the protests and (4) the relationship between the protests and religion. For the YouTube users in our study, the political music of Pussy Riot thereby serves as a vehicle to discuss politics beyond the protests themselves.

Empowering and Disempowering Aspects of New Media Networking and Digital Democracy

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Hacker ◽  
Eric L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between new media networking (NMN) and political participation continues to develop in complex ways. In light of evidence pointing to increased political participation through NMN, the structures of the networks people engage continue to exhibit both empowering and disempowering aspects. While some gaps associated with the Digital Divide are closing, others are opening. This essay utilizes network theory and power law distribution to further understand new media networks. The article concludes that there are inherent inequalities in new media networks, the inequalities can be addressed through public policy, and that they are made relevant through narratives of optimistic but realistic, progress.

What Kind of Disagreement Favors Reason-Giving? Analyzing Online Political Discussions across the Broader Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232171989470
Author(s):  
Rousiley CM Maia ◽  
Gabriella Hauber ◽  
Thais Choucair ◽  
Neylson JB Crepalde
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Real World ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Conventional Analysis ◽  
Digital Environments

This study adopts a systemic approach, focusing on real-world online discussions in legislative-, media-, and activist-based forums, to explore a set of factors that affects reasoned disagreement in digital environments. While conventional analysis investigates the effects of disagreement on civic and political participation, this study unpacks forms of disagreement that retain a principled link with reason-giving. Our findings demonstrate that context matters for shaping online communication, but that other variables have even stronger correlations. Specifically, moderating disagreement—conceptualized as a way of disagreeing that nevertheless signals a background of agreement in the conversation—strongly increases the likelihood of justificatory behavior, and it does so in more categories than bold disagreement. In conclusion, we argue that forms of disagreement and their respective consequences deserve more empirical and normative attention, not only to advance debates on deliberation but also to critically understand the communicative complexities in a new media landscape.

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