(UN)Disciplining the Scholar Activist: Policing the Boundaries of Political Engagement

Young, Anna M.; Battaglia, Adria; Cloud, Dana L.

doi:10.1080/00335630.2010.521179

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“…Many would suggest that we do. More than 84% of U.S. adults say they've experienced incivility in online or offline life, and people report an average of 5.4 uncivil online encounters every week (Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate, & KRC Research, 2018). In efforts to improve digital spaces, reducing incivility is an oft-referenced target.…”

Section: So When It Comes To Incivility What Can Be Done?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online

Chen

Muddiman

Wilner

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Social Media + Society

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Incivility and toxicity have become concepts du jour in research about social media. The clear normative implication in much of this research is that incivility is bad and should be eliminated. Extensive research—including some that we’ve authored—has been dedicated to finding ways to reduce or eliminate incivility from online discussion spaces. In our work as part of the Civic Signals Initiative, we’ve been thinking carefully about what metrics should be adopted by social media platforms eager to create better spaces for their users. When we tell people about this project, removing incivility from the platforms frequently comes up as a suggested metric. In thinking about incivility, however, we’ve become less convinced that it is desirable, or even possible, for social media platforms to remove all uncivil content. In this short essay, we discuss research on incivility, our rationale for a more complicated normative stance regarding incivility, and what other orientations may be more useful. We conclude with a post mortem arguing that we should not abandon research on incivility altogether, but we should recognize the limitations of a concept that is difficult to universalize.

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Section: So When It Comes To Incivility What Can Be Done?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. operate as border patrols” that make social mobility more difficult for disempowered groups (Young, Battaglia, & Cloud, 2010, p. 430) and even that “civility is the new censorship” (Bennett, 2011, p. 2). A general ban of incivility on platforms may constrain socially beneficial uses of incivility and cede more power to the already powerful.…”

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Muddiman

Wilner

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Social Media + Society

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“…Nowhere is this more apparent than HCI -as can be seen in the political and unionized roots of the Scandinavian participatory design tradition, or in the field's prominent history of 'design for democracy' that focuses on how technology can reconfigure citizen participation and the delivery of public services [14,17,18,35,63]. With this in mind, many scholars reject the notion that researchers should, or even can, remain neutral and apolitical [84]. Instead they argue that, when choosing to engage with politically motivated organisations and community partners, researchers are doing so based on tacit -or often intentional -beliefs about the communities or issues under exploration [45].…”

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From Her Story, to Our Story

Michie

Balaam

McCarthy

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Despite the divisive nature of abortion within the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, where access to safe, legal abortion is severely restricted, effecting legislative reform demands widespread public support. In light of a building pro-choice counter-voice, this work contributes to a growing body of HCI research that takes an activist approach to design. We report findings from four design workshops with 31 pro-choice stakeholders across Ireland in which we positioned an exploratory protosite, HerStoryTold, to engender critical conversations around the use of sensitive abortion narratives as a tool for engagement. Our analysis shows how digital storytelling can help reject false narratives and raise awareness of the realities of abortion laws. It suggests design directions to curate narratives that provoke empathy, foster polyvocality, and ultimately expand the engaged community. Furthermore, this research calls for designers to actively support community mobilization through providing 'stepping stones' to activism.

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“…Third, Jefferts 456 Southern Communication Journal Schori applies her transcendent vision to issues of sexual diversity. In cases like this, Cloud and colleagues (Lozano-Reich & Cloud, 2009;Young et al, 2010) call for confrontation, but what Jefferts Schori did is much richer than that. Although she did not support a break from the global Anglican Communion, which would have potentially decreased her ability to serve the broad world missions of caring for the poor, neither did she stop insisting on her principles-and those principles included people of all sexual orientations.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…In the communication discipline, conversations about civility have emerged prominently in the last few years. Controversy around the National Communication Association (NCA) convention site in 2008 inspired spirited debate about civility in Spectra and in a follow-up forum in the Quarterly Journal of Speech on engaged scholarship (Bach, 2009;Gunn & Lucaites, 2010;Young, Battaglia, & Cloud, 2010).…”

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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Possibilities for a Progressive Civility

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2013

Southern Communication Journal

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We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online

We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online

From Her Story, to Our Story

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Possibilities for a Progressive Civility

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