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Multimodality as civic participation

Journal of Language and Politics, 2022
Abstract In October 2018, a collaboration between young rap artists in Thailand’s Indy rap scene, Rap Against Dictatorship (RAD), launched a video criticizing the ruling Junta that went viral within days of publication. The Junta soon after released its own video as a response to RAD. The production and publication of both videos are what Scollon (2001)
Freek Olaf de Groot, Andrew Jocuns
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Illegitimate Civic Participation

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2015
In this paper we examine the way Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) support forms of community activism that operate outside formal political and institutional channels. We have done fieldwork with local housing justice activists in order to gain insight into the way ICTs play a role in complementing forms of civic engagement that ...
Mariam Asad, Christopher A. Le Dantec
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Civic Talk and Civic Participation

American Politics Research, 2009
Individuals who discuss politics and current events in their social network also participate in civic activities. However, analytical biases make it difficult to show a causal relationship between these two phenomena. To obtain a more accurate measurement of the effect that civic talk has on civic participation, data were collected through a panel ...
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Civic Education and Political Participation

PS: Political Science & Politics, 2003
Today's young people are significantly less involved in and knowledgeable about civic life than were previous generations. Mr. Galston warns that this disengagement has severe ramifications for our society. But he is optimistic that the trend can be reversed by effective school-based civic education.
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Civic Participation

2017
This chapter examines local political participation in the Prairie Crossing project and how it differs from national participation. Local political participation is defined as being involved in private government through the Prairie Crossing Homeowners Association and voting in county, township, and municipal elections; national participation is ...
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Civic Socialization and Civic Participation

2011
The book began with an argument that citizens have from the nation’s earliest days been confronted by two different and often contradictory motivations for participation in civic and political life: self-interest and civic duty. While the founders were certainly not of a unified mind on the value of either one to the civic health of the new republic ...
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From Civic Participation to Political Participation

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2012
This study examines the long-held argument that civic participation transfers to political participation, as expressed by South Korean citizens. Compared to the majority of existing research that has focused primarily on Western developed countries, the present study examines South Korea, to which little scholarly attention has been devoted. Relying on
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Catholics and the Civic Order: Parish Participation, Politics, and Civic Participation

The Review of Politics, 1988
Renewed interest in the relationship between religion and politics in the United States and widespread discussion of recent pastoral letters adopted by the American bishops, especially those dealing with disarmament and the economy, have drawn attention to the political values of American Catholics.
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