
Digital Spaces of Civic Communication
The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting
Anne Mollen(Author)
Springer VS (Publisher)
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 273 pages
978-3-658-27514-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book addresses the socio-technical constitution of civic communication in increasingly digital democracies. Despite problematic phenomena like hate speech in online commenting, it argues that citizens' potential for resisting technological inscriptions in digital media remains a fundamental democratic right. While producers inscribe anticipations for how people should be discussing political issues into commenting interfaces, citizens still resist these technological inscriptions in their commenting practices. This dialectic interrelation between interfaces and practices highlights the inadequacy of purely technological solutions for undemocratic tendencies in digital media.
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Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
92 s/w Abbildungen
XVII, 273 p. 92 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-658-27514-3 (9783658275143)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-658-27515-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
08/2019
1st Edition
Springer VS
€74.89
Available for download
Person
The Author
Anne Mollen is research assistant at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster and scientific coordinator at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World".
Content
Contents
Online commenting as civic communication.- Socio-technical dialectics of online commenting.- Interrelation of interfaces and practices.- Interfaces, practices and interactions in online commenting.