Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression
Participatory media technologies like weblogs and Facebook provide a new space for political discourse, which leads some governments to seek controls over online speech. Activists who use the Internet for dissenting speech may reach larger audiences by publishing on widely-‐used consumer platforms...
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| description | Participatory media technologies like weblogs and Facebook provide a new space for political discourse, which leads some governments to seek controls over online speech. Activists who use the Internet for dissenting speech may reach larger audiences by publishing on widely-‐used consumer platforms than on their own standalone webservers, because they may provoke government countermeasures that call attention to their cause. While commercial participatory media platforms are often resilient in the face of government censorship, the constraints of participatory media are shaping online political discourse, suggesting that limits to activist speech may come from corporate terms of service as much as from government censorship. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/788992022-10-03T11:02:19Z Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression Zuckerman, Ethan Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Zuckerman, Ethan Zuckerman, Ethan Participatory media technologies like weblogs and Facebook provide a new space for political discourse, which leads some governments to seek controls over online speech. Activists who use the Internet for dissenting speech may reach larger audiences by publishing on widely-‐used consumer platforms than on their own standalone webservers, because they may provoke government countermeasures that call attention to their cause. While commercial participatory media platforms are often resilient in the face of government censorship, the constraints of participatory media are shaping online political discourse, suggesting that limits to activist speech may come from corporate terms of service as much as from government censorship. 2013-05-15T15:54:55Z 2013-05-15T15:54:55Z 2013-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78899 Zuckerman, Ethan. "Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression." Chapter in Youth, New Media and Political Participation, Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light, editors. (under review, MIT Press) en_US Youth, New Media and Political Participation Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press Zuckerman |
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