Creative Citizenship and Social Media

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Creative Citizenship & Social Media

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C R E AT I V E C I T I Z E N S H I P & S O C I A L M E D I A

R E M E D I AT I N G C R E AT I V E

C I T I Z E N S H I P

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exercising the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of online creative communities and digital media platforms; participating in the politics of platforms

civic engagement as unintended consequence of digitally mediated creative participation and creative networks

creative, collaborative approaches to solving civic challenges using digital and social media

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T H E P L AT F O R M PA R A D I G MT H E S O C I A L M E D I A M O M E N T

The convergence of user-created (or curated) content

with social networking, mediated via a handful of

increasingly dominant proprietary platforms

Social media


Platforms are the new media institutions:

they enable, coordinate and regulate participation

via both ‘hard’ sociotechnical and ‘soft’

discursive means


The stuff of platforms

✦ Interface design, aesthetics, affordances

✦ User practices, behaviours, norms✦ Software, algorithms, APIs✦ Business models, licensing,

partnerships, revenue streams✦ Media representations, social

understandings

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Snapshot of follower-followee relationships in #agchatoz network as at April 2014

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Media orgs, journos, MPs

Oz ag orgs, farmers

international ag orgs, farmers

right-wing #auspol

foodies

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T H E S O C I A L M E D I A M O M E N T

N A R R AT I V E S O F E N C L O S U R EC O M P E T I N G F U T U R E S

Early experimentation and user-led innovation give

way to standardisation and closure as platforms

mature, reducing ‘interpretative flexibility’

V U L P U TAT E A E N E A N

C O M M O D O M AT T I S D A P I B U S

C O N S E C T E T U R M A G N A

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Strategies & Tactics Of The Digital Creative Citizen• Exploit social media logics

with playful and ‘silly’ citizenship

• Adopt adaptive, multi-platform strategies & avoid delegating everything to one or two platforms

• Develop critical engagement with platforms and their cultures as part of digital creative citizenship

D I G I TA L C R E AT I V E C I T I Z E N S H I PP R O V O C AT I O N S