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11 - Fostering Engagement in an Era of Dissipating Publics

from Part IV - Engagement with and through Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Matthew Powers
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Adrienne Russell
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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This chapter addressed the question: When formative experience of the public is fleeting experience – a repeat coming together and melting apart over tweets and likes and insta posts – how might media scholars help spur collective civic engagement that delivers to young participants the inspiring experience of making change?

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Print publication year: 2020

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