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Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement

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The framing question for this chapter is: How have both the new participatory turn and individualisation changed, and how do organisations and movements mobilise participants? It answers this using existing theory and research to bring together studies of political participation with social movement analysis. The mediated and digital context for politics has changed. The chapter provides an overview of the processes of individualisation, new citizenship norms and the realisation of ‘individualised collective action’ that underpin the new participatory turn. While protest politics and social movement societies have become the mainstream they stand in productive tension with individualisation and new citizenship norms. This tension is resolved by narrative and storytelling-driven approaches to political mobilisation.

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Vromen, A. (2017). Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement. In: Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement. Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48865-7_2

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