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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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Integrating social media for community empowerment : A study of community reporting in two Greater Manchester urban regeneration areas

EN Wattam
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative case study of a Community Reporter Programme with a social media and empowerment focus being integrated within two urban regeneration areas in Greater Manchester is presented, where empowerment value attached to participation in community generated content is primarily located at the individual level and psychological and social in nature related to a "reconnecting" and "feel good" factor.

Creative Feedback: a Manifesto for Social Learning.

TL;DR: An educational philosophy for how schools, communities and universities could develop their learning environments is set out, serving not only as a manifesto for designing learning environments generally but as a driver for designing technologies to support online social learning.
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The Vital Role of Crowdfunding and Social Media in Establishing an Art Career: A ‘How To’

I-Ching Liao
TL;DR: The RAINBOW analysis framework as discussed by the authors was developed to support data collection, interpretation, reflection on the results, and propose validated best practices for emerging artists who want to advance their careers through social media and crowdfunding platforms.
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A New Fashion: Dressing Up the Cities

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the urban knitting movement, a worldwide phenomenon that tries to combine a domestic activity, street or folk art, the reshaping of do-it-yourself culture, and peaceful forms of urban guerrilla protest.
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Young adult understanding of citizen rights and responsibilities in the Lesotho context : implications for civic education.

TL;DR: This article explored the extent to which Basotho youth understood and behaved in relation to communitarian, civic republican and cosmopolitan style citizenships, with a view to recommending curriculum reform in the country's non-formal youth programs.
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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...