Social media, design and creative citizenship: an introduction
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This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of the journal Digital Creativity, which addresses the challenges, potentials and meaning of different creative forms of citizenship enacted through social media. The articles in this special issue paint a complex picture of the expressions and meaning and citizenship. This introduction aims to provide a wider context for the contributions to this special issue by reviewing some of the claims made for the creative civic potential of social media and identifying a number of issues and questions that might inform analyses of the subject.
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Online learning in the present era of social media is highly focused on design or remix culture and involves various multimedia literacies.
“Online learning in the present era of social media is highly focused on design or remix culture and involves various multimedia literacies (Mainsah, 2017).”
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The Design section describes social-media users moving from consumers to producers or designers, and the Social media and networked technologies section describes expression through text, visual, audio and graphic forms. The Introduction also mentions remixing popular culture. These passages support the design, remix and multimedia aspects, but they concern creative citizenship, not online learning; the paper does not establish that online learning is highly focused on these practices or involves particular multimedia literacies. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.79)
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- Authors
- Mainsah, H. N.
- Affiliations
- Oslo School of Architecture and Design (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Mainsah, Henry Nsaidzeka
- Venue
- Digital Creativity
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-01-02
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-7
- ISSN
- 1462-6268 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-3806
- OpenAlex
- W2609206435
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 5.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Digital Creativity (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts
- Keywords
- social media, creative citizenship, citizen participation, design
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