A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship

Environment, media and communication

“…Many books that look at the relationship between the media and the environment focus on news media (see, e.g., Boyce and Lewis 2009), often because it is assumed that citizens require 'facts' and 'knowledge' to become politically engaged and to actively shape policy agendas (for a critical reflection on this problem, see Dahlgren 2009;Jones 2006;Livingstone 2005). Yet a growing number of scholars make the argument that audiences do not exclusively draw on news media as a source of political learning and suggest that genres primarily designed for entertainment purposes may be a resource for citizens to make sense of the socio-political world they inhabit (see, e.g., Barnhurst 1998).…”

Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences

“…(Jones, 2006, p. 370, emphasis in the original). He concludes that political and civic experiences and encounters are largely mediated, since "Western societies have experienced the explosive growth and diffusion of media technologies and their 10 Mediated citizenship refers here to the involvement of media in the process of becoming and being a citizen (Jones, 2006). increasingly central location in our public and private lives" (Jones, 2006, p. 365).…”

Mapping civic experiences in Estonia

“…The subsequently developed categories of civic experiences are based on Jones' (2006) three dominating assumptions of current research that he calls mediated 4 citizenship.…”

“…Based on the empirical material (diaries and interviews) gathered in connection with previous theoretical approaches (Jones, 2006), I distinguish between civic experiences that involve some kind of physical action and civic experiences that are mainly based on an orientation or involvement, namely a public connection. The first category encompasses civic experiences, such as civic participation, and includes a discussion of action-based civic experiences.…”