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Informationen zum Autor Engin Isin is Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP). He is a leading scholar of citizenship studies and is a Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies. He is author and editor of eleven books in the field, including 'Being Political' and 'Citizens Without Frontiers'. Klappentext From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are governed as citizens. This book examines how citizens encounter and perform new sorts of rights, duties, opportunities and challenges through the Internet. By disrupting prevailing understandings of citizenship and cyberspace, the authors highlight the dynamic relationship between these two concepts. Rather than assuming that these are static or established "facts" of politics and society, the book shows how the challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet inevitably impact upon the action and understanding of political agency. In doing so, it investigates how we conduct ourselves in cyberspace through digital acts. This book provides a new theoretical understanding of what it means to be a citizen today for students and scholars across the social sciences. Zusammenfassung Developing a critical perspective on the challenges and possibilities presented by cyberspace! this book explores where and how political subjects perform new rights and duties that govern themselves and others online. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements / 1. Doing Things with Words and Saying Words with Things / 2. Citizens and Cyberspace / 3. Speech Acts and Digital Acts / 4. Callings: Participating! Connecting! Sharing / 5. Closings: Filtering! Tracking! Normalising / 6. Openings: Witnessing! Hacking! Commoning / 7. Making Digital Rights Claims / Bibliography / Index ...
