Silly citizenship
This paper traces historical changes in the concept of citizenship, in order to show how it has shifted from a state enterprise to a form of self-organising, user-created, ludic association, modelled by online social networks in which children - formally non-citizens but crucial to the continuing an...
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2010
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| author | Hartley, John |
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| description | This paper traces historical changes in the concept of citizenship, in order to show how it has shifted from a state enterprise to a form of self-organising, user-created, ludic association, modelled by online social networks in which children - formally non-citizens but crucial to the continuing and changing discursive practices of citizenship-formation - are active agents. The implications of 'silly' citizenship for communication scholarship are considered. © 2010 Taylor & Francis. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-79142017-09-13T14:36:23Z Silly citizenship Hartley, John This paper traces historical changes in the concept of citizenship, in order to show how it has shifted from a state enterprise to a form of self-organising, user-created, ludic association, modelled by online social networks in which children - formally non-citizens but crucial to the continuing and changing discursive practices of citizenship-formation - are active agents. The implications of 'silly' citizenship for communication scholarship are considered. © 2010 Taylor & Francis. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7914 10.1080/17405904.2010.511826 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Hartley, John Silly citizenship |
| title | Silly citizenship |
| title_full | Silly citizenship |
| title_fullStr | Silly citizenship |
| title_full_unstemmed | Silly citizenship |
| title_short | Silly citizenship |
| title_sort | silly citizenship |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7914 |