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dc.contributor.authorFUNG, Archon
dc.contributor.authorSHKABATUR, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-23T11:56:30Z
dc.date.available2013-05-23T11:56:30Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1830-7736
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/27060
dc.descriptionThe lecture was delivered on 17 April 2013.en
dc.description.abstractIn 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These “viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, 100 million views of the KONY 2012 video on YouTube and its subsequent criticism and defense, and on-line activism around the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. This paper examines three aspects of these viral campaigns as a form of political engagement. First, is there a common structure of mobilization and spread? Some have argued that these viral campaigns synthesize conventional social and political networks but amplify the messages that spread through those networks through the speed of digital communication. Second, what are the potential contributions of this fast, cheap, and thin mode of engagement to democracy? We examine the implications of viral engagement for four critical democratic values: inclusion, public deliberation, political equality, and civic education.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI MWP LSen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2013/04en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectViral engagementen
dc.subjectViral campaignen
dc.subjectPopular protesten
dc.subjectOn-line activismen
dc.subjectSocial networksen
dc.subjectPolitical networksen
dc.subjectDigital communicationen
dc.titleViral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ?en
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