Meeting with Joseph Kahne, 23 February 2010
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Meeting with Joseph Kahne, 23 February 2010.
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Background
- Education, poli sci
- Less so media
Central questions
- Quality?
- Captured? Measurable?
- Causal claims?
- Is civic engagement merely correlated with youth inclination?
Questions from DML
- "Are young ppl fully tapping the potential of our democratic institutions to change the world?"
- "Can youth interest in new media be mobilized to support civic and political life in the public sphere?"
- "Is new media changing how young people are participating in civic life and what we mean by civic life?"
How do we distinguish civic from political?
Sometimes funding for opera is considered civic
- Less so rock bands
- Institutional?
- Opera company is a non profit corporation, not so much rock
- How about experimental music?
- Confusion over public, private?
Buycott, boycott
"Political but not against the state"
- Responding to corporate power, infrastructures
Does this extend to "supporting local business"?
- When does capital exchange turn civic?
- When the exchange has impact on the public good?
- Is it cynical to critique these "win-win"?
- What about the cynicism of the corporate actor?
- e.g. Altria or cigarette corps, spending 50x advertising their gift as making their gift
Disruption, radicalizing moments
- Are there recognizable patterns that we can capture?
- People report, "I got involved because I care..."
- But don't they require facilitation, recruitment?
- Interest-driven orgs provide groups TO ASK
- Opportunity for recruitment
Lingering question
- Are we demonstrating that interest-driven groups are ripe for recruitment?
- Political spam?
