ABSTRACT
How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it?
Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture," in which knowledge is originated, created, distributed, and evaluated in radically new ways. The Participatory Cultures Handbook is an indispensable, interdisciplinary guide to this rapidly changing terrain. With short, accessible essays from leading geographers, political scientists, communication theorists, game designers, activists, policy makers, physicists, and poets, this volume will introduce students to the concept of participatory culture, explain how researchers approach participatory culture studies, and provide original examples of participatory culture in action. Topics include crowdsourcing, crisis mapping, grid computing, digital activism in authoritarian countries, collaborative poetry, collective intelligence, participatory budgeting, and the relationship between video games and civic engagement.
Contributors include: Daren Brabham, Helen Burgess, Clay Calvert, Mia Consalvo, Kelly Czarnecki, David M. Faris, Dieter Fuchs, Owen Gallagher, Clive Goodinson, Alexander Halvais, Cynthia Hawkins, John Heaven, The Jannissary Collective, Henry Jenkins, Barry Joseph, Christopher Kelty, Pierre Lévy, Sophia B. Liu, Rolf Luehrs, Patrick Meier, Jason Mittell, Sarah Pearce, W. James Potter, Howard Rheingold, Suzanne Scott, Benjamin Stokes, Thomas Swiss, Paul Taylor, Will Venters, Jen Ziemke
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |31 pages
Introducing Participatory Cultures
chapter |12 pages
The New Left and the Computer Underground
part |37 pages
Understanding Participatory Fan Cultures
chapter |10 pages
Who'S Steering The Mothership?
chapter |11 pages
A Localization Shop's Tale
part |26 pages
Leveraging Participatory Creativity
part |43 pages
Building Cultures of Knowledge
chapter |10 pages
How Particle Physicists Constructed The World's Largest Grid
part |41 pages
Fostering Participatory Civic Cultures
chapter |10 pages
The Future of Participatory Budgeting
part |30 pages
Encouraging Participatory Activism
part |31 pages
Rethinking Education in the Age of Participatory Culture
part |36 pages
Challenging the Boundaries of Participatory Culture