Digital Spaces of Civic Communication: The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting

by Anne Mollen

This book addresses the socio-technical constitution of civic communication in increasingly digital democracies. Despite problematic phenomena like hate speech in online commenting, it argues that citizens' potential for resisting technological inscriptions in digital media remains a fundamental democratic right. While producers inscribe anticipations for how people should be discussing political issues into commenting interfaces, citizens still resist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658275146
• ISBN13: 9783658275143
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Springer vs
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"