Zizi Papacharissi es una voz destacada en la comprensión de las implicaciones sociales y políticas de los medios digitales. Su trabajo examina críticamente cómo las plataformas en línea dan forma a nuestras identidades, comunidades y compromiso cívico, con un enfoque particular en las dimensiones afectivas del discurso público contemporáneo. Papacharissi profundiza en las intrincadas conexiones entre el sentimiento, la tecnología y la política, revelando cómo las redes digitales influyen en los estados de ánimo colectivos y los procesos políticos. Sus ideas ofrecen una comprensión crucial de la dinámica de la democracia moderna en la era digital.
Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process.
Digital technologies network us but it is our stories that connect us to each other, making us feel close to some and distancing us from others. Affective Publics explores how storytelling practices on Twitter facilitate affective engagement for publics tuning into a current issue or event by employing three case studies: Arab Spring movements, various iterations of Occupy, and everyday casual political expressions as traced through the archives of trending topics on Twitter.
What do ordinary citizens really want from their governments?Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it’s not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries, Zizi Papacharissi explores what democracy is, what it means to be a citizen, and what can be done to enhance governance. As she explores how governments can better serve their citizens, and evolve in positive ways, Papacharissi gives a voice to everyday people, whose ideas and experiences of capitalism, media, and education can help shape future governing practices. This book expands on the well-known difficulties of realizing the intimacy of democracy in a global world—the “democratic paradox”—and presents a concrete vision of how communications technologies can be harnessed to implement representative equality, information equality, and civic literacy.