from cultural engagement to civic engagement

hegemony >> building ideology as common sense


culture and politics


civic engagement >> politics as being produced::  communal creation


popular culture


narratives leave big spaces open for participation



many recent examples of groups repurposing pop culture towards social justice. Our focus is on what we call participatory culture: in contrast to mass media’s spectator culture, digital media has allowed many more consumers to take media in their own hands, hijacking culture for their own purposes.



Such tactics work only if we read these images as metaphors, standing in for something bigger than they can fully express. Avatar can’t do justice to the old struggle over the Occupied Territories and the YouTube video is no substitute for informed discourse about what’s at stake there. Yet their spectacular and participatory performance does provide the emotional energy needed to keep on fighting. And that may direct attention to other resources.




Stephen Duncombe, Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, The New Press, New York, 2006.



Dream : re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy
2007
Duncombe, Stephen.
New York : New Press ; Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2007.
 
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>>>>>>> open-source learning

Although not specifically Wikipedia, it is an interesting talk dealing with the creation of open-source materials for learning.