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Bringing the guilty part to justice: How Facebook, the scouts and one frustrated sister drove youth mobilization in Israel 14 Apr 2011 | 07:54 pm
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Our work in the Civic Paths team touches on different ways in which participatory culture is linked to realms of civic engagement, particularly for young people. The following ...
A ‘Big Bang’ – and Participatory Fans are now on your TV Screens 31 Mar 2011 | 05:37 am
It’s been a while now since geeks have made the sudden and rapid evolution from social outcasts to trendsetters. They’re amongst the coolest people out there at the moment, causing sales of large, gee...
A ‘Big Bang’ – and Participatory Fans are now on your TV Screens 31 Mar 2011 | 01:37 am
It’s been a while now since geeks have made the sudden and rapid evolution from social outcasts to trendsetters. They’re amongst the coolest people out there at the moment, causing sales of large, gee...
Making the Case for Fan Fiction 3 Mar 2011 | 08:25 pm
At dinner last night with my screenwriter friend, I got into a discussion of the value of fan fiction, prompted by a comment I had made that indicated that I was fan of the Showtime show, The L Word, ...
Just One of the Low Millions? 15 Feb 2011 | 06:37 pm
Zombies are, for me at least, a rich subgenre of horror that allows us to explore a host of issues that deal with issues of politics, economics, and class. Even scholars who are only vaguely familiar ...
Possibilities for Engaged Scholarship 8 Feb 2011 | 01:35 pm
I’ve been thinking lately about engaged and other forms of participatory scholarship and how it might apply to the work that we’re doing at Civic Paths. Engaged scholars are intentional in crafting a...
Definitions of Otaku and Hikikomori 13 Jan 2011 | 08:22 am
I was surprised at a wrong definition of Otaku listed on Urban Dictionary.com… Otaku is defined in the Urban Dictionary as follows: Otaku is the honorific word of Taku (home). Otaku is extremely neg...
Akoha – a Direct Action Game? 31 Dec 2010 | 11:16 am
How can we make everyday civic participation more compelling? There is a new kind of game on the horizon, one that experiments with real-world action. I call them “direct action games,” because they r...
The Tea Party movement 1 Dec 2010 | 11:35 am
Over the last few months, I’ve been helping to develop the group’s understanding of civic activism by US political groups on the right – conservatives and libertarians, broadly speaking. We’ve been pa...
Ghoulish ATMs, It’s a Wonderful Bank, and Bloody Valentines: Personal Finance as Civic Communication 11 Nov 2010 | 06:26 pm
On April 5, 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation (PDF) declaring April “National Financial Literacy Month.” It was a call for collective agency and responsibility, positioning the “recent econo...
