posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00authored bySharyn Mcdonald
“Making and Shaping Publics: Discourse and Technology” is composed of five different positions on how media technologies shape publics, and how new and emerging publics construct identities and strategic goals. This section of Contemporary Publics begins with an introduction where media technologies are utilised to facilitate progressive change. This facilitative role is examined in subsequent chapters, where publics can unite around discourse and technology that enables communication and identity creation. The negative consequences of technologies in making and shaping publics are also examined, particularly with respect to privacy. Overall, various responses have emerged from the ways in which media and discursive practices attempt to fold us into particular kinds of publics. The chapters in this section observe how publics react to forms of control.
History
Chapter number
8
Pagination
117-128
ISBN-13
9781137533234
Language
eng
Publication classification
B Book chapter, B1 Book chapter
Copyright notice
2016, The Editors & Authors
Extent
18
Editor/Contributor(s)
Marshall PD, D'Cruz G, McDonald S, Lee K
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Basingstoke, Eng.
Title of book
Contemporary publics : shifting boundaries in new media, technology and culture