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Youth's civic awareness through selfies : fun performances in the logic of 'Connective actions'

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Can we raise the youthU+2019s civic awareness via selfies? This is the bet that several non-profit organisations aiming at raising the youthU+2019s civic awareness have made. In injecting a fun dimension to civic mobilisation, campaigns via selfies place the young participantsU+2019 performance as a constitutive element of their civic action. My analysis of six youth campaigns based on selfies shows that they privilege awareness techniques that fall under the U+201Cactualizing citizenship paradigmU+201D (Bennett et al., 2011), in which self-expression and U+201Cconnective actionU+201D (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012) are favoured, instead of more traditional collective actions.
Book: Selfie citizenship
Pages: 49 - 58
ISBN:978-3-319-45269-2
Accessibility:Closed