Performing citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video<i>Fitna</i>

Zoonen, Liesbet van; Vis, Farida; Mihelj, Sabina

doi:10.1080/17405904.2010.511831

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“…Hartley (1999) described 'DIY citizenship' to argue the increasing importance of media for political participation in various unintended and public ways. For example, Van Zoonen et al's (2010) work found that people's responses to the anti-Islam film Fitna on YouTube showed multiple forms of citizenship invoked by the film. Manning and Edwards (2014) also argued that young people employed various means of media production to articulate their political expression and perform an 'unlocated' citizenship, which helped address public issues of transnational relevance.…”

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Examining the role of ideological and political education on university students’ civic perceptions and civic participation in Mainland China: Some hints from contemporary citizenship theory

Zhang

Fagan

2016

Citizenship, Social and Economics Education

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A long existing compulsive curriculum of ideological and political education is employed by the Chinese government to promote citizenship education among Chinese university students. This article builds on the findings of a mixed-methods research that examined the role of ideological and political education on university students' civic perceptions and civic participation. The results showed little evidence of this curriculum having a clear effect on students' political participation such as voting, as well as their idealized broad civic participation, but did reveal relatively positive effects on students' civic intention and civic expression. In addition, it also identified its significant role in organizing students towards attending party-related activities. It shows that ideological and political education is insufficient to achieve specified aims of citizenship education among Chinese university students. We then argue that it results from a mechanistic understanding of citizenship and participation in educational policies and structural barriers to young people's formal participation. Hence, this article argues that the forms and contents of citizenship education in China need to be reconsidered beyond the limits of the current ideological and political education and that the analyses contributed to an argument for a broader approach to citizenship education to be developed and adopted.

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Section: Beyond the Educational Setting: The Changing Nature Of Citizmentioning

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Examining the role of ideological and political education on university students’ civic perceptions and civic participation in Mainland China: Some hints from contemporary citizenship theory

Zhang

Fagan

2016

Citizenship, Social and Economics Education

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“…However, "popular content" may also play a similar mediating role as previous research has shown (Corner andPels, 2003/2006;van Zoonen, 2005;van Zoonen, Vis and Mihelj, 2010). Secondly, Jones argues that the analysis of political mediation often focuses on information dissemination to the "informed citizen", as in the work of Schudson (1999), and this is the normative expectation of news media's contribution to political and civic culture.…”

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

Kaun¹

2013

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“…Unlike in the past, when comparatively few individuals with access to the expensive technologies of image making could engage in this powerful form of expression, the increasing ubiquity of mobile and affordable digital cameras, their vastly improved design in the last decade, and the immediacy of social media connecting political geographies and borders allows ordinary citizens around the globe to instantly announce their support or disenchantment with ruling parties or public policy. Digital-networked images have the potential to disrupt even state-imposed political processes through this creative form of visual expression (Gerbaudo, 2015;Kraidy, 2016;Mottahedeh, 2015;Van Zoonen et al, 2010).…”

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Digital-Networked Images as Personal Acts of Political Expression: New Categories for Meaning Formation

Kasra

2017

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This article examines the growing use of digital-networked images, specifically online self-portraits or "selfies", as deliberate and personal acts of political expression and the ways in which meaning evolves and expands from their presence on the Internet. To understand the role of digital-networked images as a site for engaging in a personal and connective "visual" action that leads to formation of transient communities, the author analyzes the nude self-portrait of the young Egyptian woman Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, which during the Egyptian uprisings in 2011 drew attention across social media. As an object of analysis this image is a prime example of the use of digital-networked images in temporally intentional distribution, and as an instance of political enactment unique to this era. This article also explains the concept of participatory narratives as an ongoing process of meaning formation in the digital-networked image, shaped by the fluidity of the multiple and immediate textual narratives, visual derivatives, re-appropriation, and remixes contributed by other interested viewers. The online circulation of digital-networked images in fact culminates in a flow of ever-changing and overarching narratives, broadening the contextual scope around which images are traditionally viewed.

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Performing citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam videoFitna

Cited by 111 publications

References 10 publications

Examining the role of ideological and political education on university students’ civic perceptions and civic participation in Mainland China: Some hints from contemporary citizenship theory

Examining the role of ideological and political education on university students’ civic perceptions and civic participation in Mainland China: Some hints from contemporary citizenship theory

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

Digital-Networked Images as Personal Acts of Political Expression: New Categories for Meaning Formation

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