Audiences and publics, 9 March 2010
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Keywords
- Public, publics
- Political
- Civic
- Audience
- Community
- Crowd
- Mobile publics (Aswin)
"Wisdom of crowds"?
- Our examples don't involve the individual isolation of the crowd
"Civic" between "audience" and "public"
- Working off of Habermas
- Working also off of typical understandings of "political"
Guild politics
- LRRG as guild
- Protecting their own practices
- Relatively fewer individuals generalize from LRRG vids to all fair use
- Not all implicated people self-identify as LRRGs
- Not all LRRGs engage politically
- But the work of those that do spirals out to affect the lives of the others
Tactically self-identifying as a public
- Invisible Children facing Washington via lobbying may identify as public
- But their everyday work tends to be about community building
- "Global consciousness" translating into local issues, investment?
- Global citizenship, abstract concepts such as "justice"
Habermas ideal public, café
- Not formed around problem, unlike LRRGs
- Emphasis on space, discourse
- Habermas like Cheers
- The break room at work
Broadening out
- How do these conversations extend, grow?
Anonymous as a contested public
- Griefing, trolling as anti-public
- Off-line activist more explicit about its public-ness
Cults of personality
- Core/vertical structures
- Invisible Children (3 founders), HPA (Andrew Slack), LRRG (Pook, Zodiak)
- Horizontal structures
Jump offs
- Livingstone, Sonia (Ed.) (2005) Audiences and publics: When cultural engagement matters for the public sphere. Bristol: Intellect Books.
- Pierre Levy, Collective intelligence
- Habermas, Public sphere
- Oldenberg, "the great good place", third spaces
- Putnam, bowling alley
