If a group of friends meeting to sew or craft in a house share copyrighted patterns, there is little public concern. If the group of friends meet and discuss and share their work (and patterns created by others) online, questions of copyright infringement and fair use come into play.
I didn't know that could actually happen. Interesting
As types of activity and practice move from one domain to another, we also see transformations in the relationship of political activity to social and cultural spheres.
Politics seem to become more and more based around social media. Young people tend to find out about politics through the internet.
Since online interest-driven participation similarly cultivates skill development, and in particular the skills of participatory culture which translate directly into success in participatory politics, we may expect online interest-driven participation to provide a significant developmental pathway toward participatory politics.
Perhaps this could spawn a global movement?
In this volume, Beltran describes how these young activists use social media as a “space of confrontation, creativity and self-assertion,” thereby wresting control over the immigration narrative from an older generation of activists.
I like how all of these have social ties to them. Social media isn't all bad as some make it seem.
Political leaders are now speaking in front of audiences where their every utterance can be captured on a cell phone camera or digital recorder and then circulated online among a much larger audience
This should make politicians more aware of what they say when speaking.
Across the literature, the concept of participatory politics designates forms of political action that seek to advance peer-to-peer forms of organization and to evade elite dominance in politics, regardless of what the partisan affiliation is of those elites
Concept of participatory politics found throughout older forms of literature.
Those who engage in agenda-setting, opinion formation, and action-taking through methods like the ones described above participate in “participatory politics.”
This is pretty much participatory culture based but it has to do with more community problems and how those participating could help fix these problems.
f sources. They also often check the veracity of information that is circulated by elite institutions, such as newspapers and political candidates.• Dialogue and feedback. There is a high degree of dialogue among community members, as well as a practice of weighing in on issues of public concern and on the decisions of civic and political leaders. This might include voicing one’s perspective at a meeting, discussing politics with others, commenting on blogs, or engaging in other digital or face-to-face efforts to interact with or provide feedback to leaders.• Circulation. In participatory politics, the flow of information is shaped by many in the broader community rather than by a small group of elites. This might include sharing information about an issue at a meeting of a religious or community organization to which one belongs or posting or forwarding links or content that have civic or political intent or impact.• Production. Members not only circulate information but also create original content (such as a blog or video that has political intent or impact) that allows them to advance their perspectives. • Mobilization. Members of a community rally others to help accomplish civic or political goals. This might include working to recruit others for a grassroots effort within one’s community, or reaching out to those in one’s social network and beyond on behalf of a political cause
More activities of participatory politics
Investigation. Members of a community actively pursue information about issues of public concern. Participants seek out, collect, and analyze information from a wide array
An activity of participatory politics.
Our analysis of youth activity in a political domain that we define broadly has made visible clusters of practices that are analogues to those identified as constituting participatory culture. T
Would this be the basis of participatory politics?
• circulate(by blogging, podcasting, or forwarding links)• collaborate (by working together with others to produce and share information via projects, such as Wikipedia)• create (by producing and exchanging media via platforms like YouTube and Flickr)• connect (through social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, or through online communities, such as game clans or fandoms)
These seem important. All of these have to do with ways young people use media
Our understanding of the “participatory” aspect of participatory politics borrows from and is rooted in Henry Jenkins’s concept of participatory culture (Jenkins et al. 2009). In a participatory culture, participation is significantly peer-based, interactive, nonhierarchical, independent of elite-driven institutions, and social, that is, accessible to analysis at the level of the group rather than the individual.
Participatory culture is such a good concept in my opinion. Rather than follow boring school curriculum, one can actually follow something they like and an impact on that community.
Within the context of participatory culture, however, one might now “crowd-source” the answer with an open-ended Google search and then decide how to vet, and organize the collective knowledge of the group.
Going over the mile to put yourself inside the culture to have more knowledge
digital media appear to have made participatory cultures more common, and indeed, participatory cultures are often discussed in relation to digital practices and platforms
Digital media is making participatory culture way more accessible for everyone. Participatory culture is able to be shown more and more because of digital media
“politics as usual” in the future
I definitely believe this will cause a big change for future politics if younger people are able to see politics in their life as they are growing up will be likely to grow their own beliefs and opinions on what they see in politics
By 2009, 80 percent of the members of Congress had set up their own YouTube channels, enabling unfiltered communication to their constituents (NPR 2009).
This fact really surprised me, even politicians are using the digital media era to put out more thoughts and opinions of what they want to world to know.
digital media have created new possibilities for civic and political participation
Digital Media is allowing people from all over the world to talk and put their opinions into the world and have people who believe what believe be in a groups to suppose each other.
First, it acknowledges that many of the struggles to shift public attention to new issues or frames and to challenge the balance of power in public life take place outside of traditional institutions of civic and political life. S
"Participatory Politics"
, young people are frequently among the “every day innovators” who are appropriating digital tools to serve their communications goals, as seen in studies of teens’ texting practices.
But does this affect face to face interactions?
We gather together the norms and practices that we identify as shifting the political landscape under the label “participatory politics.
What exactly is participatory politics?
(1) new technology and associated practices, facilitate networked, many-to-many, and mobile communications; (2) online networks support both structured interactions among people and more open-ended participation in a range of activities; (3) traditional barriers to cultural production and circulation are now much lower; (4) these changes are playing a pivotal role throughout the world, in developing as well as postindustrial societies, in democracies and in more autocratic regimes
Media transformatio
Frequently, acts of participatory politics tap the public’s connection to popular culture.
So, if gone too far this can become very invasive, however, managed correctly, this is not only effective, but essential to connecting different groups to the same discourse.
Those who engage in agenda-setting, opinion formation, and action-taking through methods like the ones described above participate in “participatory politics.”
Well this is basically a key term definition, so I am just going to save this for later.
increasing access to tools supporting circulation, collaboration, creation, and connection
These are basically the four tenets through which all apps, or programs are created around. "How is my app going to do any or all of these things?"
cholars have argued that new media may be facilitating a broad shift in the form and focus of politics.
Increased agency with the influence of social media will do that. It is amazing what a few thousand "likes" will accomplish when it is shown to the right person.
informal and not-easily categorized actions.#For exam
Almost like a cipher
Millennials’ participatory zeitgeist, political urgency, and civic media fluency.
We are just growing up. It seems to me that there is becoming a deafing awareness of the need for political urgency, and as described below, there are more and more Millennials that are finding politics to be far more approachable than we lead ourselves to believe. Especially as it becomes easier to connect with people with social media, which will continue to be our fulcrum for political agency.
We struggle to balance teacher- and student-guided learning.
This seems like something that has to be addresses very often if it is to be overcome. Teachers letting their students know their intentions with when the teachers are the ones teaching, and when the students are the ones leading. Similarly, the students need to be receptive with the teachers and with each other, and ready to switch gears from being taught to getting ready to learn on their own. It's a very delicate balance and it requires a lot of awareness and effort on both sides.
peer-supported mentoring groups meet across campus
The value of mentors cannot be understated. Especially in this context where there is so much nuance between the brainstorming and the final presentation phase that not only is primary source information important, but so is constantly checking each other and trying to improve each other.
over 100 undergraduates participate in online debate, community-based service and research, and town hall meetings featuring issue experts and local stakeholders
Increasing exposure to the local elements of government is unfortunately terribly under-developed. Everyone from CEO's on down don't need to have a hand in local government if they don't want to, but everyone should at least be aware of how it works.
or a Smartphone
Fun fact: There have been entire movies that have been shot on phones and the quality is actually quite good. We'd do well to remember that a mini-computer links each one of us to each other.
blends priorities and pathways via creation of public policy across school, community, and online settings
MSC models a civic platform whereby contingent formations of media, information, and people open pathways of interest-driven priorities, reflecting and advancing the well-being of Michigan’s students
I don't know what to say here, but I feel like this might be important?
As proposals are authored, so too are they discussed and revised. Each section of a proposal—the pre-ambulatory clauses (“Whereas…”), operative clauses (“Be it resolved…”), and consultation clauses (supporting opinions from experts)—is iteratively refined until the final voting phase begins (figure 1.3).
Probably a reference to continually improving an idea so it can pass, will require collaboration and feedback from all parties, including those that will be affected by the plan.
These activities seed students’ creation of public policy in six topic areas: justice and equity, arts and culture, human development and welfare, environment and health, economic policy, and community revitalization and social entrepreneurship
This is focusing on these 6 areas, but I think that there could be things alike to this one that are focusing on very different topics but still working the same way.
survey
undocumented youth are increasingly using digital media to produce and circulate their stories of coming out as undocumented through movement art and user-generated videos and documentaries, a practice they identify as “participatory storytelling” which “allow[s] immigrant youth a means for self-de!nition and spontaneous messaging, a form of communication, which diverges from tightly controlled movement ‘framing’” (
This is so cool! I love this idea and I think it could be applied for many different groups of people!
(2) online networks support both structured interactions among people and more open-ended participation in a range of activities;
think about this with our DML 3 projects
“Transitions are consequential when they are consciouslyreflected on, often struggled with, and the eventual outcome changes one’s sense ofself and social positioning
This is an awesome quote! Someone might be able to add this to their project!
As pictured inFigure 1, “Connected civics” is a way to describe the learning that takesplace at the intersection of three realms of activity: young people’s agency within peercultures and public spheres; their deeply felt identities, interests and affinities; and civicengagement and opportunity.
3 intersecting realms of activity that make up Connected Civics
As articulated within the framework of participatorypolitics, these activities can involve: production and circulation of information about amatter of public import; carrying out dialogue and feedback related to that issue; investi-gating topics that are consequential to the community; using that information to holdaccountable people in power; and mobilizing others on questions of justice, rights, andequality
Good explanation here of "participatory politics"
3. by developingcross-cutting infrastructure, young peopleoften working in collabora-tion with adultsinstitutionalize their efforts in ways that make a loosely affiliated net-work into something that is socially organized, self-sustaining, and recognized as such bythose outside the original interest-driven community
It's almost like saying that connected civics efforts that possess this "cross cutting infrastructure" can help participants gain greater sense of meaning. As the effort grows beyond and outside of the original community, participants may begin to feel that they are having a greater impact and making a real interest, which itself will drive continued and increased participation.
One interesting initiative is “The Change Society” –a subgroup of older teens in the YouMedia fold who work with one of the organization’s mentors to create media pieces (music, poetry, video) with a focus on civic engagement.
Specials are opportunities for students to do work in specific areas of curricular interest—Lego Robotics League, Anime Book Club, Civilization League, Spoken Word, and so on— or for one-on-one tutoring of students who may want or need extra help in reading or numeracy.
By the sound of it, specials act like more of a study hall, yet with more free control? I honestly feel like this is a great idea. If they need help, they can get help. If they do not need help, and would rather explore their interests, they can do that too!
Choice courses run for six weeks, two Choice sessions per semester. In the sixth grade, Choice classes meet four times each week.
So these "choice classes" take up a huge part of the curriculum. Do they coincide with other classes, or are they their own thing?
Learnare electives created by faculty around topics
It is interesting that these classes are considered more as electives than actual classes
The students have first to gain an under-standing of where the food comes from and make decisions about what can be on the menu at what part of the year. During the last two weeks of the course, students create lunch for the entire school, applying math and science concepts
Learning is unsheltered by the silo of a given content area. Here, students are hooked on the food yet meaningfully apply concepts of math and science (plus marketing, history, research skills and writing!)