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<article-title>Conjunctions: Introducing Cultural Participation as a Transdisciplinary Project</article-title>

Conjunctions: Introducing Cultural Participation as a Transdisciplinary Project

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This article is a conversation between David Gauntlett and Amy Twigger Holroyd, who have shared interests in craft, making, sustainability and social change. Our discussion starts with the importance of small steps towards creativity: the personal satisfaction of making something yourself and of gaining recognition from others. These ‘micro’ steps, combined together at the macro level, become significant in contributing to social change. In particular, we explore the ways in which amateur making is important for sustainability – through offering an alternative to the mass consumption model and building a sense of engagement with the world. We then explore the idea of design as a process of action, change and creativity, which can be used to address social and environmental problems – whether by designing systems to support activity and reflection, or by creatively intervening in the complex systems within which we live.
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<article-title>On Making, Sustainability and the Importance of Small Steps : A Conversation</article-title>

On Making, Sustainability and the Importance of Small Steps : A Conversation

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The article focuses on 1001 Stories of Denmark: an internet site and a mobile app that collects and displays stories and visual material connected to places all over Denmark. This site offers a “social media-like” communication frame with various levels of participation. But in reality, 1001 stories of Denmark is mainly a one-to-many dissemination of expert knowledge, and actual user participation is limited. However, the site does host user-generated material, e.g. a number of amateurish videos and stories that often do not follow the guidelines, but in some cases construct willful and affective narratives. I argue that these videos and stories demonstrate the potential of mobile and digital cultural heritage sites; however, it requires strategic initiatives and long-term engagement from museums and cultural institutions to create and maintain the level of the dialogue and participation.
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Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture

<article-title>Stories on the go Mobile, digital cultural heritage and participation on 1001 stories of Denmark</article-title>

Stories on the go Mobile, digital cultural heritage and participation on 1001 stories of Denmark

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The article is based on the case of a group of homeless people who in the fall of 2013 occupied a central site in the Danish town of Aarhus. The authors argue that this specific case is an ideal object of investigation for casting light on a new situation in the field of public administration. Public administration has recently moved from the paradigm of New Public Management to a new and still undetermined paradigm, which focuses on activating and engaging citizens, treating them as equal partners in the process of co-creating welfare services and the community itself as a brand. Using the case of the homeless, the authors argue that participatory citizenship should not only be viewed as “added value” to the field of public administration, but rather as emerging within a dynamic and conflict-ridden field between citizens and administration where new types of value are potentially created
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<article-title>Co-creating with the homeless? Postmodern administration and participatory citizenship</article-title>

Co-creating with the homeless? Postmodern administration and participatory citizenship

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Multiculturalism has become a charged arena in recent times with proponents and critics focusing on the value of its utility. Existing models measuring the outcome of multiculturalism emanate from the social sciences that attempt to assess the degree of inter-cultural integration through cultural indices on ethnicity and tradition. This article argues that arts impact studies in general, and emergent cultural indicator frameworks in particular, provide a more robust arena for considering the utility of multiculturalism to claims of social, cultural and economic wellbeing. This article examines the impact of multicultural arts through the quality of cultural participation. It begins by critically surveying global, national and local indicator frameworks on measuring multiculturalism in recent developments of cultural policy. It suggests that current frameworks for thinking about cultural diversity and cultural participation are inadequate, and there is a need to develop a more nuanced understanding of these relations as they are played out in the context of people’s everyday cultural lives. It proposes a new framework that highlights a bi-directional theory-based approach to cultural citizenship and tests its utility against original fieldwork conducted in the growth corridor outer suburb of Whittlesea in Melbourne, Australia.
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<article-title>Accounting for Multiculturalism: The Utility of Cultural Indicators and the Politics of Diversity and Participation</article-title>

Accounting for Multiculturalism: The Utility of Cultural Indicators and the Politics of Diversity and Participation

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Young people’s civic engagement through online communities and peer networks has received increased attention in recent years. This paper examines groups rooted within participatory cultures, which mobilize their participants toward explicit civic goals. We draw on our research of Invisible Children and the Harry Potter Alliance—two media-centric, youth-oriented, participatory organizations—to identify their distinctive practices. Building on our analysis, we propose that both organizations engage in “Participatory Culture Civics” (PCC) as they support organized collective action towards civic goals, while building on the affordances of participatory culture. We describe three innovative PCC practices employed by these groups: Build Communities, Tell Stories, and Produce Media. The organizations’ ability to combine civic goals with the pleasures of participatory culture allows them to successfully engage young people. However, both organizations struggle to balance between the creative and community-based tenets of participatory culture, and the focused, product-driven goals of a civic engagement organization.
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Doctoral Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

<article-title>“Feel That You Are Doing Something”: Participatory Culture Civics</article-title>

“Feel That You Are Doing Something”: Participatory Culture Civics

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While Digital Storytelling has been lauded as an exemplary model of participatory cultural citizenship (particularly in initiatives for and with marginalised people), many mediating influences make ‘authentic’ self-representation far from straightforward. In this article, I consider some of these mediating influences, from both theoretical and practical perspectives, and underline their regulatory and constitutive nature. While some of these mediating influences are timeworn and pre-date digital technology, others are perpetuated and amplified, as is the case in networked personal storytelling disseminated online. I draw on some well-established strategies derived from anthropology and narrative practices to propose a new purpose for old tools. These tools support the nuanced and sensitive facilitation of both face-to-face and online Digital Storytelling workshops as well as the curation of web spaces in which they eventually circulate. I argue that making complex mediating influences visible to participants affords redress of the inherent social and technical privileges of institutions, facilitators and platforms. Finally, I consider the implications of these strategies for voice, marginalised identity, cultural citizenship and social change.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Queensland

<article-title>Mediating Influences: Problematising facilitated digital self-representation</article-title>

Mediating Influences: Problematising facilitated digital self-representation

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This article studies Nagieb Khaja’s documentary film My Afghanistan. Life in the Forbidden Zone (2012), produced from footage by locals. It is Khaja’s aim to create awareness of how daily life is maintained in a war zone in Afghanistan. In 2013 he launched a webpage to further the interest in the matter. News on the withdrawal of military forces and interviews with locals were posted on the site, which was used as an educational participatory platform. This article highlights the participatory engagement by including the Deleuzian concept of ‘the intercessor’ – i.e. the use of the film camera as a creative rather than a documenting device – and it contends that the intuitive use of the camera momentarily has a participatory impact on the users and an affective impact on spectators and users alike.
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Department of Aesthetics and Communication

<article-title>Participatory Citizenship in a War Zone – on Activist Strategies in a Documentary Film and on the Internet</article-title>

Participatory Citizenship in a War Zone – on Activist Strategies in a Documentary Film and on the Internet

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Editor-in-Chiefs Carsten Stage, Aarhus University, Denmark Louise Yung Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark Maja Klausen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Managing Editors Carsten Stage, Aarhus University, Denmark Louise Yung Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark Maja Klausen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Editors Camilla Møhring Reestorff, Aarhus University, Denmark Thomas Markussen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Jan Løhmann Stephensen, Aarhus University, Denmark Kristine Samson, Roskilde University, Denmark Michael Nebeling Petersen, Copenhagen University, Denmark Editorial Advisory Board Christian Ulrik Andersen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Sophie Esmann Andersen, Associate Professor, The University of Aarhus, Business School, Denmark Lisa Blackman, Professor, Media and Communications, Goldsmith University of London, UK Axel Bruns, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Jean Burgess, Associate Professor, Deputy Director CCI, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Charlotte Bydler, Research Leader, Senior Lecturer, School of Culture and Education Södertörn University, Sweden Nico Carpentier, Extraordinary Professor, Charles University, Czech Republic Kate Crehan, Professor, Cultural Antropology, CUNY, The City University New York, US Mark Deuze, Professor, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Stephen Duncombe, Associate Professor, New York University Gallatin, US David Gauntlett, Professor in Media and Communications, The University of Westminster, UK Anna Gibbs, Associate Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia Jennifer Henderson, Professor and Chair, Communication, Trinity University, Ireland Grant Kester, Professor, Art History, University of California San Diego, US Christoffer Kelty, Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles, US Britta Timm Knudsen, Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Stine Lomborg, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Celia Lury, Professor, The University of Warwick, UK Karen Hvidtfeldt, Professor, Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Erin Manning, Professor, Concordia University, Montreal and Director of The Sense Lab, Canada Noortje Marres, Professor, The University of Warwick, UK Scott McGuire, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne, Australia Andrew Murphie, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia Nikos Papastergiadis, Professor, Cultural Studies and Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne, Australia Søren Pold, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Jenny Sundén, Professor, Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden Publisher DE GRUYTER POLAND Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str. 01-811 Warsaw, Poland T: +48 22 701 50 15

<DIV align=left> <A href="https://sciendo-parsed-data-feed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/TJCP/Call_for_Papers___Designing_for_Play_as_Cultural_Participation_in_Childhood__Seeking_New_Grounds.pdf">Call for Papers – vol 9(1): Designing for Play as Cultural Participation in Childhood. Seeking New Grounds</A> Conjunctions seeks to create an international and transdisciplinary forum for the investigation of user-generated cultural production, user-driven cultural participation and citizen involvement across a variety of social fields, contexts and practices, e.g. urban spaces, (digital) media, social media platforms, education and teaching, the cultural sector and creative industries, aesthetic productions and museums, health institutions, activism and design. The overall focus of the journal is to explore the socially transformative and democratic potential of cultural participation processes, to qualify the academic understanding of what ‘participation’ is and what it involves, and to discuss the complex relations created between user-generated processes and established institutions and discourses. We take an interest in critical analyses of participatory practices, rhetoric and involvement strategies, in affirmative investigations of participation, in explorations of explicit or conscious and implicit or non-conscious forms of participation. Submitted articles can be focused on theoretical development or on empirical analysis (of e.g. case studies). We also welcome work that use innovative or creative methods as well as more traditional methods. The journal invites submissions from a variety of disciplinary fields such as media and communication studies, cultural studies, interaction and participatory design, cultural geography, education, aesthetics, science and technology studies, health care, health communication, information science, sociology, anthropology, development studies and gender studies. The journal is published twice every year. Archiving Sciendo archives the contents of this journal in <A href="https://www.portico.org/">Portico</A> - digital long-term preservation service of scholarly books, journals and collections. Plagiarism Policy The editorial board is participating in a growing community of <A href="https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/">Similarity Check System's</A> users in order to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy. Similarity Check is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process. </DIV>

<DIV align=left> Open Access Policy This journal provides immediate open access to its content under the <A href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">Creative Commons BY NC 3.0 license</A> and on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY NC 3.0 license. Please submit your manuscripts via email to <A>norcs@cc.au.dk</A>. Review: Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation　has a 'double blind' peer review procedure. <A href="https://sciendo-parsed-data-feed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/TJCP/Editorial_statement__non_reviewed_articles.pdf">Editorial statement on non-reviewed articles</A>. Article length: 7000 words, including endnotes, headings, bibliography and a 150 word abstract. Language: English Title page: Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper. Notes: Should be indicated by superscript numbers and presented as endnotes. Diagrams and graphics: Should be embedded in the file. Figures: Upon acceptance please supply figures/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi. Rights: Please make sure you have the right to publish illustrations, if any. Copyright: If the figures/graphics/images have been taken from sources not copyrighted by the author, it is the author’s sole responsibility to secure the rights from the copyright holder to reproduce those figures/graphs/images for both worldwide print and web publication. All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author. When figures/graphics/images are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the figure legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.) Abstract: Articles must include an abstract of up to 150 words. The abstract should stand alone, enabling a reader to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. Keywords: After the abstract, please give five key words for readers looking for material by key word searching on Internet. Avoid using the same words as in the title. Biography: If and when the paper is accepted, please provide a short biography (50-75 words) of each author to follow the final manuscript file. Biographical details: Include full name(s), current professional affiliation, and an email address for correspondence. If more than one author, please indicate who the corresponding author is. Section headings: Please do not number section headings. Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, i.e. capitals, italics, bold etc. Quotations: Please use double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 40 words should appear in a separate paragraph, indented by tapping a ca 1cm right margin, without quotation marks. Notes and bibliography: Use APA style. <A href="http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx">http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx</A> Guidelines for Reviewers Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation　has a 'double blind' peer review procedure. The editors of each issue moderate and supervise the review process, and authors are able to follow each step of it. Peer reviewers are given four to six weeks to complete the review. Peer reviewers are asked to give their opinion on a number of issues pertinent to the scientific and formal aspects of a paper, and to judge the papers on grounds on originality and urgency. Peer reviewers are asked to answer the following questions: <OL> <LI>Is the paper original and relevant for the research area? </LI> <LI>Is the argumentation convincing and coherent? </LI> <LI>Is existing research properly included and referenced? </LI> <LI>Is the paper structured well? </LI> <LI>Is the paper reader-friendly? </LI> </OL> Peer reviewers will have four possible options for recommendations <OL> <LI>Accept manuscript (no need for revision) </LI> <LI>Accept after minor revisions (accepted if the author makes the requested revisions) </LI> <LI>Accept after major revisions (accepted if the author makes the requested revisions) </LI> <LI>Reject manuscript </LI> </OL> Paper may also be rejected directly by the editors if judged to be out of scope or sub-standard. Sources of Support IRFD - The Independent Research Fund Denmark </DIV>

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