Citizenship, value and digital culture

Civic media and technologies of belonging: Where digital citizenship and ‘the right to the city’ converge

“…Crowdsourcing through social media and 'digital creativity' has been often used as frame to construct motivating discourses for local governments and third sector organizations seeking to mobilize civically-aware residents for such neighbourhood-oriented agendas (e.g. Dovey et al, 2016;Jones et al, 2015), as who would act as 'citizen sensors' feeding back to local government and corporate interests. Instead, as Monno argues, being part of neoliberal strategic agendas, such projects may indeed feed the 'systematic deregulation and the radical de-politicization of the urban space' (2016: np).…”

“…Such resources maybe indeed vested in the 'radical ordinariness' of using Twitter and Facebook, mailing lists and online and hyperlocal media forums to express vernacular voices and pleas for recognition (e.g. Leurs and Georgiou, 2016;Dovey et al, 2016); or they may involve transverse borders that transgress or creatively subvert regulatory and corporate orders to call for remaking of the city from below (see Purcell, 2003;Nyers and Rygiel, 2012). Some scholars have linked the model of civic culture to 'creative citizenship' and 'digital citizenship' (Hargreaves and Hartley 2016), bringing to the fore new emphases on the creative capacity civic actors mobilize when sharing knowledge through digital media and the potential that this knowledge sharing has to drive change (see Alevizou et al, 2019).…”