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Polityczność kwestii światopoglądowych w ujęciu dyskursywnym
2014
One of the dimensions of axiological values’ and agendas’ presence in the public sphere is seeing worldview as being political. Due to the nature of the phenomenon of belief as well as the category of politics, proposed consideration of these issues in the analysis of political science may be a discursive approach. Mechanisms which are revealing on the basis of discourse allow to specify categories of naturalization and pragmatism as the two basic types of articulation. As a result, we can identify examples of the implications of this phenomenon that have been identified in the form of SEP (somebody’s else problem) and tensions within the public-private dichotomy.
Social capital and the networked public sphere: Implications for political social media sites
2012
Submitted version of a paper from the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS), 2012. Published version available from IEEE: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2012.535 This paper presents a theoretical lens for research on social media use in eParticipation, along with an example case study. The idea of the public sphere and how it can be applied to eParticipation research is presented. The public sphere is discussed in relation to Castell's notion of the network society as the "networked public sphere", and social capital is introduced as a possible explanation for why some people choose to participate while others refrain from doing so. An example case is presented and…
#RevueltasEstéticas: Del #yosoy132 a #Ayotzinapa
2016
El objetivo de este articulo es situar en las esteticas de protesta los dispositivos que se despliegan en manifestaciones sociales como practicas artisticas contemporaneas. En dos casos en Mexico, el movimiento “yo soy 132” y las manifestaciones por los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa. Se aborda la relacion entre politica y estetica desde el planteamiento de que el arte contribuye a la formacion de subjetividades politicas, y la forma en que estas practicas criticas se han desplegado en la esfera publica. The purpose of this article is to place within the aesthetic of protest, devices that are deployed in social demonstrations and contemporary art practices. In two scenarios in M…
Intellectual Power in Europe
2018
In this chapter, the author argues that the increasing complexity of European societies accentuates the need for a discourse that unites specialists—mathematicians, engineers, humanists—and the public. European societies are constantly haunted by the fragmentation of knowledge relating to political and social life. This can be seen in the decline in political participation as well as the discontent with globalization and resistance to social reforms. These phenomena are related to the status of intellectuals as producers of public discourse. The author concentrates on two socio-cultural aspects that influence the transformation of the role of intellectuals, a substantial aspect, the questio…
Rappresentazione e prassi nello spazio pubblico. I dispositivi artistici nel contesto politico e sociale
Humanity in Times of Crisis
2014
The belief in a politics of humanity, even in times of crisis, can be argued to serve as the basis of Hannah Arendt’s political thought. By presupposing freedom as a human condition, Arendt’s account of the political addresses what she takes to be humans’ capability to begin something anew, which involves new-born children as well critique of the society. Also, one way in which Arendt may be read, is by holding that the politics of humanity is, fundamentally speaking, grounded in new-born’s embodiment. Although Arendt rejects a direct link between the body and the political respectively, it still seems as if her account of humanity and dignity should be interpreted as depending on the ontol…
ESCR Review: Citizenship and Politics
2020
This chapter describes the analyses and results for the ESRC Domain of Citizenship and Politics, guided by two main questions: How digital technology impacts on our autonomy, agency, and privacy; Whether and how our understanding of citizenship is evolving in the digital age. It first provides an initial overview of the major insights from the literature review and analysis, the Delphi surveys, and workshop discussions about the relevant range of the concepts of citizenship and politics in a digital age. Over time the literature shows a shift from issues of public sphere and use of the Internet by government and candidates to more focus on political participation and engagement, especially …
La Media Education tra cultura partecipativa e intenzionalità civica. Due casi di studio
2022
The mass diffusion of the web in the early 1990s, and the web 2.0 a decade later, has undoubtedly allowed a more democratic access to information and knowledge, and served as a catalyst for sociability and participation as it offers the possibility of cultivating spaces for discussion and sharing with a potentially infinite number of people. Since then, innumerable forms of grassroot online engagement have grown in the most diverse fields, from leisure, to politics, to civicism making concrete the possibility of a new digital public sphere (Marinelli and Cioni 2014, Bartoletti and Faccioli 2013, Dahlgren 2009). This socio- communicative ferment, which Jenkins (1992) describes with the contr…
‘Disorderly conduct’: on the unruly rules of public communication in social network sites
2013
In this article, we examine typical styles and practices of public communication on social network sites (SNSs) in order to confront the traditional concept of publics as machines for creating order. Through an ethnographic case study of the SNS Facebook, we show how indeterminacy, ambiguity and constant irritation, rather than arguments or reason, produce the communicative order. A decidedly disorderly style of communication and connectivity emerges. Indeterminacy, from our point of view, is a solution to the problem of speaking privately in public and to an indefinite audience. We use these findings to problematize the insights of network theory and Niklas Luhmann's systems theory that on…
Festive Traditions in Modernity: The Public Sphere of the Festival of the ‘Fallas’ in Valencia (Spain)
2002
Festive sociability is central for the transmission of tradition and is a fundamental field of interaction between the festive tradition and modernity. This sociability has a reflexivity and a public sphere of its own. The dominant modernist opposition between tradition and modernity is questioned with the help of a recent study of the Fire Festival of the ‘Fallas’ (Valencia, Spain).