(Mis)Understanding Political Participation

Jeffrey Wimmer is Professor in the Institute of Media, Knowledge and Communication at Augsburg University, Germany.Cornelia Wallner is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication Science and Media Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.Rainer Winter is Professor of Media and Cultural Theory and head of the Institute of Media and Communication Studies at Klagenfurt University, Austria.Karoline Oelsner is a researcher in the Department of Public Relations and Communication of Technology at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.

• Introduction: (Mis-)Understanding political participationJeffrey Wimmer, Cornelia Wallner, Rainer Winter, and Karoline Oelsner Part I: Practices of participation and citizenship1. (New) Forms of digital participation? Toward a resource-model of adolescents’ digital engagementAnnika Schreiter, Sven Joeckel and Klaus Kamps2. Long-lasting shadows of (post)communism? Generational and ethnic divides in political and civic participation in EstoniaVeronika Kalmus, Ragne Kõuts-Klemm, Mai Beilmann, Andu Rämmer and Signe Opermann3. Enhanced inter-visibility. The experience of civic engagement in social mediaMaria Francesca Murru4. ‘I am not a consumer person’ – Political participation in repair cafésSigrid Kannengießer5. Intimate citizenship politics and digital media: Teens’ discourses, sexual normativities and popular social mediaSander de Ridder and Sofie van BauwelPart II: Mediated representations of participation and citizenship 6. The Indignados in the European Press: beyond the protest paradigm? Maria Kyriakidou, José Javier Olivas Osuna and Maximillian Hänska Ahy7. Speak your mind: Mediatized political participation through second screens. Udo Göttlich and Martin R. Herbers8. "My body, my decision". The abortion debate and twitter as a counterpublic sphere for women in TurkeyPerrin Öğün Emre and Gülüm Şener9. Repeat, remediate, resist? Meme activism in the context of the refugee crisisElena Pilipets and Rainer WinterPart III: (Re-)Framing participation and citizenship 10. Towards a framework for studying political participation in social mediaJulie Uldam and Anne Kaun11. Protest or collaboration? How perceived opportunities and constraints shape the activities of anti-infrastructure citizen action groupsMarco Braeuer and Jens Wolling12. Rethinking otherness and cultural citizenship: Cosmopolitanism and new platforms Elke Grittmann and Tanja Thomas13. Mapping the ‘search agenda’: A citizen-centric approach to electoral information flowsFilippo Trevisan, Andrew Hoskins, Sarah Oates and Dounia Mahlouly