ReClaiming Participation: Technology - Mediation - Collectivity

This volume unravels the debates on the Participation Age&: Instead of perpetuating visions of social all-inclusion& or the digital divide&, the collection reclaims collectivity as an effect of technological and historical conditions.Thinking of participation both as promise and duty, the contributions analyse the attractions and impositions connected to the socio-technical formation of collectivities. The constraints of participation are addressed by focusing on the mutual shaping of user practices and technological environments. It is hence a relational thinking that allows specifying the manifold interconnections of technology, practices and discourses. Copyright © transcript.