TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carpentier, Nico
AB  - Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To deal with these paradoxes, this book looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power, identity, organization, technology and quality.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_606390
ID  - OAPEN ID: 606390
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 729166877
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32743
KW  - media
KW  - power
KW  - development
KW  - technology
KW  - democracy
KW  - organization
KW  - arts
KW  - identity
KW  - participation
KW  - spatial planning
KW  - Kinoautomat
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Maximalism
KW  - Public sphere
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32743/1/606390.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32743/1/606390.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32743/1/606390.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32743/1/606390.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35049
PB  - Intellect
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9781841504070
TI  - Media and Participation: A site of ideological-democratic strugglenull
ER  - 
