Book review: Misunderstanding the Internet 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Book review: Digital visual effects in cinema: The seduction of reality 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Participation that matters 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Shrinking the grand narratives in theorizing participation and new media 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Theorizing participatory intensities: A conversation about participation and politics 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

This conversation started in Prague, the Czech Republic, during a panel moderated by Irena Reifová at the symposium ‘On Empowered and Impassioned Audiences in the Age of Media Convergence’. The event ...

Waves of media democratization: A brief history of contemporary participatory practices in the media sphere 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

The article aims to provide a more historically grounded approach to the relationship between communication and participation, by distinguishing different waves of media democratization. The article f...

More than a desire for text: Online participation and the social curation of content 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Why and on what bases do people choose content and share it in an online environment? At the centre of Henry Jenkins’ theory of convergence culture lie in the transforming links between active, partic...

The delicate art of criticizing a saviour: 'Silent gratitude' and the limits of participation in the evaluation of fan translation 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Following the discussion of silences and absences in user participation, this short paper aims to analyze the limits of participation in defining and evaluating quality of user-generated content. It f...

Bollywood dance as political participation? On flash mobs, new media, and political potential 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

On November 27, 2011, a flash mob took place in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) train station in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, as a group of mostly young people performed a dance set to a Bollywo...

Mediated gesture: Paralinguistic communication and phatic text 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

This article draws an analogy between physical nonverbal gesture and the textual conventions of new and social media to argue that the vital nonverbal functions of face-to-face communication are not a...