DIY Citizenship : Critical Making and Social Media.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I DIY and Activism: New Modes of Civic Engagement and Participatory Politics -- 1 Maktivism: Authentic Making for Technology in the Service of Humanity -- 2 (Re)making the Internet: Free Software and the Social Factory Hack -- 3 Fan Activism as Participatory Politics: The Case of the Harry Potter Alliance -- 4 Radical Inclusion? Locating Accountability in Technical DIY -- 5 Proportionate ID Cards: Prototyping for Privacy and Accountability -- 6 Developing Communities of Resistance? Maker Pedagogies, Do-It-Yourself Feminism, and DIY Citizenship -- 7 Rethinking Media Activism through Fan Blogging: How Stewart and Colbert Fans Make a Difference -- 8 Just Say Yes: DIY-ing the Yes Men -- II DIY and Making: Learning, Culture, Hacking, and Arts -- 9 DIY Citizenship, Critical Making, and Community -- 10 Mélange of Making: Bringing Children's Informal Learning Cultures to the Classroom -- 11 Power Struggles: Knowledge Production in a DIY News Club -- 12 Transparency Reconsidered: Creative, Critical, and Connected Making with E-textiles -- 13 Woven Futures: Inscribed Material Ecologies of Critical Making -- 14 Making Publics: Documentary as Do-It-with-Others Citizenship -- 15 Mirror Images: Avatar Aesthetics and Self-Representation in Digital Games -- III DIY and Design: Opening the Black Box and Repurposing Technologies -- 16 Textual Doppelgangers: Critical Issues in the Study of Technology -- 17 The Growbot Garden Project as DIY Speculation through Design -- 18 Doing It in the Cloud: Google, Apple, and the Shaping of DIY Culture -- 19 Citizen Innovation: Active Energy and the Quest for Sustainable Design -- 20 Le Champ des Possibles-The Field of Possibilities -- 21 Distributed Design: Media Technologies and the Architecture of Participation.

22 "I hate your politics but I love your diamonds": Citizenship and the Off-Topic Message Board Subforum -- IV DIY and Media: Redistributing Authority and Sources in News Media -- 23 Redesigning the Vox Pop: Civic Rituals as Sites of Critical Reimagining -- 24 Alternative Media Production, Feminism, and Citizenship Practices -- 25 Alternative Media, the Mundane, and "Everyday Citizenship" -- 26 Critical News Making and the Paradox of "Do-It-Yourself News" -- 27 Social Media, Visibility, and Activism: The Kony 2012 Campaign -- 28 A Digital Democracy or Twenty-First-Century Tyranny? CNN's iReport and the Future of Citizenship in Virtual Spaces -- List of Contributors -- Index.

How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.

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