Civic Media – Technology, Design, Practice

Acknowledgments
Introduction

I: The Big Picture
1. Democracy in the Digital Age
Peter Levine
2. Effective Civics
Ethan Zuckerman
3. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics
W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg
4. Liberated Technology: Inside Emancipatory Communication Activism
Stefania Milan
5. Case Study: “Bury until They Change Their Ways”—The Digg Patriots and/as User-Generated Censorship
Chris Peterson
6. Case Study: Marriage Equality, Facebook Profile Pictures, and Civic Participation
Brady Robards and Bob Buttigieg
7. Case Study: Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement
Erhardt Graeff

II: Systems + Design
8. Re-Imagining Government through Civic Media: Three Pathways to Institutional
Innovation
Beth Simone Noveck
9. Data Visualizations Break Down Knowledge Barriers in Public Engagement
Sarah Williams
10. The Partisan Technology Gap
David Karpf
11. Case Study: Code for America—Scaling Civic Engagement through Open Data and Software Design
Andrew Richard Schrock
12. Case Study: RegulationRoom
Dmitry Epstein and Cheryl Blake
13. Case Study: Better Reykjavik—Open Municipal Policymaking
Derek Lackaff
14. Case Study: The California Report Card Version 1.0
CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative at UC Berkeley

III: Play + Resistance
15. Meaningful Inefficiencies: Resisting the Logic of Technological Efficiency in the Design of Civic Systems
Eric Gordon and Stephen Walter
16. Let’s Get Lost: Poetic City Meets Data City
Beth Coleman
17. Superpowers to the People! How Young Activists Are Tapping the Civic
Imagination
Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik
18. Case Study: Mashnotes
Roy Bendor
19. Case Study: From #destroythejoint to Far-Reaching Digital Activism—Feminist Revitalization Stemming from Social Media and Reaching Beyond
Jessica McLean and Sophia Maalsen
20. Case Study: The “It Gets Better Project”
Laurie Phillips Honda
21. Case Study: Terra Incognita—Serendipity and Discovery in the Age of Personalization
Catherine D’Ignazio
22. Case Study: Innovation in the Absence of a State—Civic Media and the Inclusion of the Marginalized in the Somali Territories
Nicole Stremlau

IV: Learning + Engagement
23. Capitalists, Consumers, and Communicators: How Schools Approach Civic Education
Renee Hobbs
24. Connecting Pedagogies of Civic Media: The Literacies, Connected Civics, and Engagement in Daily Life
Paul Mihailidis and Roman Gerodimos
25. Youth Agency in Public Spheres: Emerging Tactics, Literacies, and Risks
Elisabeth Soep
26. Case Study: Tracking Traveling Paper Dolls—New Media, Old Media, and Global Youth Engagement in the Flat Stanley Project
Katie Day Good
27. Case Study: From Website to Weibo—New Media as a Catalyst for Activating the Local Communication Network and Civic Engagement in a Diverse City
Daniela Gerson, Nien-Tsu Nancy Chen, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, and Michael Parks
28. Case Study: Becoming Civic—Fracking, Air Pollution, and Environmental Sensing Technologies
Jennifer Gabrys, Helen Pritchard, Nerea Calvillo, Nick Shapiro, and Tom Keene

V: Community + Action
29. Activist DDoS, Community, and the Personal
Molly Sauter
30. Partnering with Communities and Institutions
Ceasar McDowell and Melissa Yvonne Chinchilla
31. Community Media Infrastructure as Civic Engagement
Colin Rhinesmith
32. Case Study: The #YoSoy132 Movement in Mexico
Emiliano Treré
33. Case Study: An #EpicFail #FTW—Considering the Discursive Changes and Civic Engagement of #MyNYPD
Sarah Whitcomb Lozier
34. Case Study: Pivot—Surreptitious Communications Design for Victims of Human Trafficking
Tad Hirsch
35. Case Study: MídiaNINJA and the Rise of Citizen Journalism in Brazil
Stuart Davis
36. Case Study: Hacking Politics—Civic Struggles to Politicize Technologies
Sebastian Kubitschko

VI: Research + Funding
37. Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age
Benjamin Bowyer and Joseph Kahne
38. Participatory Action Research for Civic Engagement
Marcus Foth and Martin Brynskov
39. Field-Building in Stages: Funding and Sustainability in Civic Innovation
Valerie Chang and Beth Gutelius
40. Case Study: Guerrilla Research Tactics—Alternative Research Methods in Urban Environments
Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Lindy Osborne, Inger Mewburn, and Ben Kraal
41. Case Study: Hackathons as a Site for Civic IoT—Initial Insights
Carl DiSalvo and ken anderson
42. Case Study: Crowdfunding Civic Action—Pimp My Carroç
Rodrigo Davies

Contributors
Index