{"product_id":"the-participatory-cultures-handbook-9780415506090","title":"The Participatory Cultures Handbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of participatory culture, in which knowledge is originated, created, distributed, and evaluated in radically new ways. \u003cem\u003eThe Participatory Cultures Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e is an indispensable, interdisciplinary guide to this rapidly changing terrain. With short, accessible essays from leading geographers, political scientists, communication theorists, game designers, activists, policy makers, physicists, and poets, this volume will introduce students to the concept of participatory culture, explain how researchers approach participatory culture studies, and provide original examples of participatory culture in action. Topics include crowdsourcing, crisis mapping, grid computing, digital activism in authoritarian countries, collaborativ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From gaming to education, journalism, and criticism, this ambitious and exciting book covers the full gamut of the participatory culture world. An essential and very useful collection for anyone even remotely interested in the topic.\" \u003cem\u003e—Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"From gaming to education, journalism, and criticism, this ambitious and exciting book covers the full gamut of the participatory culture world. An essential and very useful collection for anyone even remotely interested in the topic.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e—Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Recommended. [A] solid entrée into deeper thinking about participatory culture.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003e–CHOICE, B.S. John, Old Dominion University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. What is Participatory Culture? \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Introduction: What is Participatory Culture? \u003cem\u003eAaron Delwiche and Jennifer Henderson\u003c\/em\u003e 2. The New Left and the Computer Underground: Recovering Political Antecedents of Participatory Culture \u003cem\u003eAaron Delwiche\u003c\/em\u003e 3. From Participation to Power \u003cem\u003eChristopher Kelty\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eII. Understandng Participatory Fan Cultures\u003c\/strong\u003e 4. Wikis and Participatory Fandom \u003cem\u003eJason Mittell\u003c\/em\u003e 5. Who's Steeing the Mothership? The Role of the Fanboy Auteur in Transmedia Storytelling \u003cem\u003eSuzanne Scott\u003c\/em\u003e 6. The Guiding Spirit and the Powers That Be: A Response to Suzanne Scott \u003cem\u003eHenry Jenkins\u003c\/em\u003e 7. A Localization Shop's Tale: Bringing an Independent Japanese Role-Playing Game to North America \u003cem\u003eMia Consalvo\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIII. Leveraging Participatory Creativity\u003c\/strong\u003e 8. Collaborative New Media Poetry: Mixed and Remixed \u003cem\u003eThomas Swiss and Helen Burgess\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e9. Collaborative Comics: The Story Behind Pixton \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eClive Goodinson\u003c\/em\u003e 10. The Assault on Creative Culture: The Politics of Ownership \u003cem\u003eOwen Gallagher\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIV. Building Cultures of Knowledge\u003c\/strong\u003e 11. The Creative Conversation of Collective Intelligence \u003cem\u003ePierre Levy, translation by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Blogging as a Free Frame of Reference \u003cem\u003eAlexander Halavais\u003c\/em\u003e 13. Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities \u003cem\u003eDaren Brabham\u003c\/em\u003e 14. How Particle Physicists Constructed the World's Largest Grid: A Case Study in Participatory Cultures \u003cem\u003eSarah Pearce and Will Venters\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eV. Fostering Participatory Civic Cultures \u003c\/strong\u003e15. Restructuring Civic Engagement: Meaningful Choice and Game Design Thinking \u003cem\u003eBenjamin Stokes\u003c\/em\u003e 16. The Future of Participatory Budgeting: Political Participation and Practicable Policy \u003cem\u003eRolf Luehr and John Heaven \u003c\/em\u003e17. Participatory Democracy \u003cem\u003eDieter Fuchs\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eVI. Encouraging Participatory Activism\u003c\/strong\u003e 18. From Cultures of Participation to the Rise of Crisis Mapping in a Networked World \u003cem\u003eSophia B. Liu and Jen Zemke\u003c\/em\u003e 19. Digital Activism in Authoritarian Countries \u003cem\u003eDavid M. Faris and Patrick Meier \u003c\/em\u003e20. Activism on the Ground: Habitat for Humanity \u003cem\u003eCynthia Hawkins\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eVII. Rethinking Education in the Age of Participatory Culture \u003c\/strong\u003e21. Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies \u003cem\u003eHoward Rheingold\u003c\/em\u003e 22. Leveraging Digital Media to Create a Participatory Learning Culture among Incarcerated Youth \u003cem\u003eBarry Joseph and Kelly Czarnecki\u003c\/em\u003e 23. The Expanding Role for Media Literacy in the Age of Participatory Cultures \u003cem\u003eW. James Potter\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eVIII. Challenging the Boundaries of Participatory Culture \u003c\/strong\u003e24. Participation and the Technological Imaginary--Interactivity or Interpassivity? \u003cem\u003ePaul Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e 25. Participatory Culture and Media Life: Approaching Freedom \u003cem\u003eThe Jannissary Collective: Peter Blank, Watson Brown, Mark Deuze, Lindsey Ems, Nicky Lewis, Jenna McWilliams, and Laura Speers\u003c\/em\u003e 26. Legal Constraints on Participatory Culture in the United States: Anonymity, Concealment and Revelation \u003cem\u003eClay Calvert\u003c\/em\u003e 27. Toward an Ethical Framework for Online Participatory Cultures \u003cem\u003eJennifer Henderson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767519576407,"sku":"9780415506090","price":46.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415506090.jpg?v=1758713597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-participatory-cultures-handbook-9780415506090","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}