By: Aaron Delwiche (Editor), Jennifer Jacobs Henderson (Editor)

Hardcover

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How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it?

Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture," in which knowledge is originated, created, distributed, and evaluated in radically new ways. The Participatory Cultures Handbook is an indispensable, interdisciplinary guide to this rapidly changing terrain. With short, accessible essays from leading geographers, political scientists, communication theorists, game designers, activists, policy makers, physicists, and poets, this volume will introduce students to the concept of participatory culture, explain how researchers approach participatory culture studies, and provide original examples of participatory culture in action. Topics include crowdsourcing, crisis mapping, grid computing, digital activism in authoritarian countries, collaborative poetry, collective intelligence, participatory budgeting, and the relationship between video games and civic engagement.

Contributors include: Daren Brabham, Helen Burgess, Clay Calvert, Mia Consalvo, Kelly Czarnecki, David M. Faris, Dieter Fuchs, Owen Gallagher, Clive Goodinson, Alexander Halvais, Cynthia Hawkins, John Heaven, The Jannissary Collective, Henry Jenkins, Barry Joseph, Christopher Kelty, Pierre Lévy, Sophia B. Liu, Rolf Luehrs, Patrick Meier, Jason Mittell, Sarah Pearce, W. James Potter, Howard Rheingold, Suzanne Scott, Benjamin Stokes, Thomas Swiss, Paul Taylor, Will Venters, Jen Ziemke

"From gaming to education, journalism, and criticism, this ambitious and exciting book covers the full gamut of the participatory culture world. An essential and very useful collection for anyone even remotely interested in the topic." -Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

What is Participatory Culture?
Introduction: What is Participatory Culture?
Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies
The New Left and the Computer Underground: Recovering Political Antecedents of Participatory Culture
From Participation to Power
Wikis and Participatory Fandom
Creative Cultures
Who's Steeing the Mothership? The Role of the Fanboy Auteur in Transmedia Storytelling
The Guiding Spirit and the Powers That Be: A Response to Suzanne Scott
Collaborative Comics: The Story Behind Pixton
A Localization Shop's Tale: Bringing an Independent Japanese Role-Playing Game to North America
Collaborative New Media Poetry: Mixed and Remixed
Knowledge Cultures
The Creative Conversation of Collective Intelligence
Blogging as a Free Frame of Reference
Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities
From Cultures of Participation to the Rise of Crisis Mapping in a Networked World
How Particle Physicists Constructed the World's Largest Grid: A Case Study in Participatory Cultures
Towards a Participatory Learning Culture
Civic Cultures
Participatory Democracy
The Future of Participatory Budgeting: Political Participation and Practicable Policy
Digital Activism in Authoritarian Countries
Open House: Participatory Culture and Habitat for Humanity
Restructuring Civic Engagement: Meaningful Choice and Game Design Thinking
The Limitations and Challenges of Participatory Cultures
Participation and the Technological Imaginary--Interactivity or Interpassivity?
Participatory Culture and Media Life: Approaching Freedom
Participatory Culture and Media Life: Approaching Freedom Politics of Cultural Ownership
Legal Constraints on Participatory Culture in the United States: Anonymity, Concealment and Revelation
The Expanding Role for Media Literacy in the Age of Participatory Cultures
Toward an Ethical Framework for Online Participatory Cultures
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ISBN: 9780415882231
ISBN-10: 0415882230
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 312
Published: 24th July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.8
Weight (kg): 0.726