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Acknowledgements | p. vii |
Contemporary Democracies, Civic Engagement, and the Media | p. 1 |
Media and the mythology of the new | p. 7 |
Old and new democracy | p. 11 |
The conditions of contemporary democracy | p. 12 |
A new(er) civic vernacular | p. 15 |
Public and Private Expression in Contemporary Democracies | p. 25 |
The dichotomy of public and private over time | p. 26 |
The dichotomy of public and private at present | p. 37 |
Privacy as commodity | p. 42 |
A trichotomy: the social | p. 48 |
Converged Media, Converged Audiences, and Converged Publics | p. 51 |
Convergence in everyday life | p. 53 |
Convergence of technologies | p. 61 |
Convergence of spaces | p. 68 |
Convergence of practices | p. 74 |
Technology as the architecture of the new | p. 78 |
The Question of Citizenship in a Converged Environment | p. 80 |
A long history of imperfect citizenship | p. 81 |
The past and contemporary citizenship modalities | p. 88 |
The liquid citizen: a combined model of flexible citizenship | p. 107 |
The Public Sphere, Expired? On the Democratizing Potential of Convergent Technologies | p. 112 |
The public sphere in contemporary democracies | p. 113 |
Access to information | p. 120 |
Reciprocity | p. 121 |
Commercialization | p. 123 |
A new kind of public | p. 125 |
A Private Sphere | p. 131 |
Five new civic habits | p. 138 |
The networked self and the culture of remote connectivity | p. 138 |
A new narcissism: blogging | p. 144 |
The rebirth of satire and subversion: YouTube | p. 150 |
Social media news aggregation and the plurality of collaborative filtering | p. 152 |
The agonistic pluralism of online activism | p. 157 |
The private sphere and the networked citizen | p. 161 |
References | p. 168 |
Index | p. 194 |
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