TY - CHAP

T1 - Visibility, Voice and Encounter in Cosmopolitan Online Communication. Rethinking Cultural Citizenship in Post-Migrant Societies

AU - Grittmann, Elke

AU - Thomas, Tanja

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Increased mobility and forced migration have boosted the interconnectedness and increased “proximity” of formerly distant others. In post-migrant societies, the encounter between migrants and non-migrants has become a common experience as well as a challenge in everyday life, which has been highly shaped by digital media cultures. This chapter introduces the concept of cultural citizenship and discusses how it has been addressed in media and communication studies so far. It also introduces three analytical dimension, which allow us to conceptualise the different communicative modes that enable cultural citizenship in online communication: visibility, voice and encounter. As the boundaries between producers and users are blurring in online communication, empirical research has taken the changing processes in decision-making within the production of meaning into account. Although one may argue that webmasters define the institutional level, produsers are also involved in communicative practices and thus in the production of meaning.

AB - Increased mobility and forced migration have boosted the interconnectedness and increased “proximity” of formerly distant others. In post-migrant societies, the encounter between migrants and non-migrants has become a common experience as well as a challenge in everyday life, which has been highly shaped by digital media cultures. This chapter introduces the concept of cultural citizenship and discusses how it has been addressed in media and communication studies so far. It also introduces three analytical dimension, which allow us to conceptualise the different communicative modes that enable cultural citizenship in online communication: visibility, voice and encounter. As the boundaries between producers and users are blurring in online communication, empirical research has taken the changing processes in decision-making within the production of meaning into account. Although one may argue that webmasters define the institutional level, produsers are also involved in communicative practices and thus in the production of meaning.

KW - Media and communication studies

UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/ilmenau/toc/1002927315.PDF

U2 - 10.4324/9781315620596

DO - 10.4324/9781315620596

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-1-1386-5878-3

T3 - Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Serie

SP - 213

EP - 228

BT - (Mis)Understanding Political Participation

A2 - Wimmer, Jeffrey

A2 - Wallner, Cornelia

A2 - Winter, Rainer

A2 - Oelsner, Karoline

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - New York

ER -