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Making is connecting. The Social Meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2011.

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The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 458 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Meaning (existential) & Polity.

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(Re)Locating community in relationships: questions for public policy

TL;DR: The authors argue that community is ontological, as unavoidably "with us" and argue that this approach could enable a different kind of public policy in relation to community, which would focus on existing relationships as the starting point for any efforts to effect social change.
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A new culture of advocacy: An exploratory analysis of social activism on the web and social media

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how non-profit organizations adapted to the new media environment and created an innovative culture of advocacy to directly facilitate engagement with interested support entities, and found that NPOs adapted to new media environments and created a culture for advocacy.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: proactive Audiences in the Performing Arts

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the debates on the proactive role of live performance audiences in the context of the Be SpectACTive! workshop in Barcelona, 2016, where the participants developed their vision of what participation means in culture, each in his/her field and disciplinary environment.
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Sufferer's market : sufferation and economic ethics in Jamaica

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the everyday understanding and management of Jamaica's adverse economy through an ethnographic analysis of economic practice among five groups variously involved in Montego Bay's tourist sector, including Sindhi merchants, local craft vendors, an artisan cooperative, a Rastafarian tour village and local lottery scammers.
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Radical Online Video: YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices

Tina Askanius
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore contemporary modes of video activism for a radical politics of the left, focusing on YouTube as one of the most prevalent spaces in which radical video is screened and experienced today.
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Rethinking convergence / culture: an introduction

TL;DR: In the first decade of the twenty-first century, there has been a growing perception that we live in an era of media "convergence" as mentioned in this paper, and there are at least four ways that the expression "convegence" h...