Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / I. Participatory Practices and Digital Media -- Introduction: Objects of Citizen Participation / Collectives, Connectives, and the 'Nonsense' of Participation / Editors of Play / Multimodal Crowd Sensing / Micro-activist Affordances of Disability. Transformative Potential of Participation / II. Participation and the Claims of Community -- Introduction: Questioning Community / Other Beginnings of Participative Sense-Culture / Partial Visibilities, Affective Affinities: On (Not) Taking Sides / "Man in the Loop" / Temporal Regimes of Protest Movements / Liquid Democracy / III. Art and Media: Theory of Partaking -- Introduction: Participation and Relation / Artfulness / Art and Design as Social Collaborative Praxis / 'Choir of Minds' / Mobilizing Memes / Who Will Translate the Web? / Perspectives -- Between Demand and Entitlement / Contributors Denecke, Mathias / Ganzert, Anne / Stock, Robert -- Niederer, Sabine -- Pias, Claus -- Abend, Pablo / Beil, Benjamin -- Vehlken, Sebastian -- Dokumaci, Arseli -- Bartz, Christina -- Hörl, Erich -- Stramskas, Arnoldas -- Franz, Nina -- Kaun, Anne -- Dege, Martin -- Schramm, Samantha -- Manning, Erin -- Cruz, Maria Teresa -- Axer, Eva -- Simons, Sascha -- Mitchell, Christine -- Bippus, Elke / Ochsner, Beate / Otto, Isabell --
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.