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Appeal: Digital technologies' impact on contemporary democracies.

Recommendation: A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the impact of digital technologies on democracy and citizenship. Papacharissi's book provides a nuanced and critical analysis of the promises and limitations of the digital age for democratization. She challenges readers to rethink our understanding of the public and private spheres and the role of citizens in shaping contemporary democracies. A valuable contribution to media studies, political science, and critical theory.

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ISBN: 9780745645254
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM114.87 MYR
Publisher: Polity
Date of Publication: 2010-08-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.94
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Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal an electorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued with political conventions of the mainstream. This book examines how online digital media shape and are shaped by contemporary democracies, by addressing the following Students and scholars of media studies, political science, and critical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with some of the most important questions facing democracies today.
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Appeal: Digital technologies' impact on contemporary democracies.

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