Naslov
Going offline: how online initiatives revive offline civic engagement

Autori
Bebić, Domagoj ; Grbeša, Marijana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Future of Information Sciences: INFuture2007 - Digital Information and Heritage

Urednik/ci
Seljan, Sanja ; Stančić, Hrvoje

Izdavač
Odsjek za informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2007

Raspon stranica
243-254

ISBN
978-953-175-305-0

Ključne riječi
collective identity; online communication; social capital; crisis of public communication; civic engagement

Sažetak
Building on the concept of a new identity and acknowledging the growing concern about disengaged citizenry, soundly expressed in the accounts of eroding social capital and the crisis of public communication thesis, this paper will develop two assumptions. First, it will argue that online interactions in virtual communities have the potential to create group identity hence providing a source of content that has the capacity to transform virtual into physical communities. Second, it will assume that these virtually created and physical consumed communities have the capacity to induce public action and positively contribute to civic engagement. In order to explore aspects of virtual communities as local e-engagement spaces, this paper will present two case studies – the MoveOn and the Meetup Initiatives.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

POVEZANOST RADA