Ian Hargreaves and John Hartley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447324942
- eISBN:
- 9781447324966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324942.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
The book’s first ten chapters are summarised, drawing attention to policy relevant or otherwise actionable strategies to enhance the scale and value of creative citizenship. A dialogue with four UK ...
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The book’s first ten chapters are summarised, drawing attention to policy relevant or otherwise actionable strategies to enhance the scale and value of creative citizenship. A dialogue with four UK political think tanks is highlighted, drawing attention to points of agreement between creative citizenship and mainstream political thinking, along with tensions. Reflections are offered upon aspects of the work of the UK coalition government (2010–2015) and the opening phase of its successor (2015–). A sample policy agenda for one of the areas of study in the creative citizens project – hyperlocal journalism – is offered as an illustration of the readiness with which action programmes to support aspects of creative citizenship can be attempted. An indication of relevant policy directions with regard to creative citizenship’s implications for education and the economy is given. The challenges attaching to a growth of creative citizenship in the context of international polities such as the European Union is discussed. The conclusion is reached that creative citizenship offers an important and salient concept in the context of well-established but still growing global social media. The case for the unbinding of the creative citizen is strong.Less
The book’s first ten chapters are summarised, drawing attention to policy relevant or otherwise actionable strategies to enhance the scale and value of creative citizenship. A dialogue with four UK political think tanks is highlighted, drawing attention to points of agreement between creative citizenship and mainstream political thinking, along with tensions. Reflections are offered upon aspects of the work of the UK coalition government (2010–2015) and the opening phase of its successor (2015–). A sample policy agenda for one of the areas of study in the creative citizens project – hyperlocal journalism – is offered as an illustration of the readiness with which action programmes to support aspects of creative citizenship can be attempted. An indication of relevant policy directions with regard to creative citizenship’s implications for education and the economy is given. The challenges attaching to a growth of creative citizenship in the context of international polities such as the European Union is discussed. The conclusion is reached that creative citizenship offers an important and salient concept in the context of well-established but still growing global social media. The case for the unbinding of the creative citizen is strong.
Ian Hargreaves and John Hartley (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447324942
- eISBN:
- 9781447324966
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324942.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
Digital social media afford unprecedented opportunities for groups of citizens to collaborate locally and internationally in innovative ways in countless domains. This book seeks to evaluate this ...
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Digital social media afford unprecedented opportunities for groups of citizens to collaborate locally and internationally in innovative ways in countless domains. This book seeks to evaluate this potential, drawing upon a broad conceptual analysis and a series of co-creative case studies undertaken by a multi-disciplinary research team with community partners in different parts of the UK. Creative citizenship is shown to be a widespread, even global phenomenon, though the term itself is recent in origin. Creative citizens are active across the whole of society, making distinctive contributions in politics, education, media, environment, urban development, journalism, planning, business and many other dimensions. In its closing chapter, the book draws together the insights from case studies and a wider reflection upon policy options open to government and others to ‘unbind’ creative citizenship. The authors argue for re-consideration of official statistics to reflect the significant but largely uncounted contribution to the creative economy made by creative citizens. The book then identifies other ways in which the potential of creative citizens can be ‘unbound’, in fields such as community journalism, planning and education.Less
Digital social media afford unprecedented opportunities for groups of citizens to collaborate locally and internationally in innovative ways in countless domains. This book seeks to evaluate this potential, drawing upon a broad conceptual analysis and a series of co-creative case studies undertaken by a multi-disciplinary research team with community partners in different parts of the UK. Creative citizenship is shown to be a widespread, even global phenomenon, though the term itself is recent in origin. Creative citizens are active across the whole of society, making distinctive contributions in politics, education, media, environment, urban development, journalism, planning, business and many other dimensions. In its closing chapter, the book draws together the insights from case studies and a wider reflection upon policy options open to government and others to ‘unbind’ creative citizenship. The authors argue for re-consideration of official statistics to reflect the significant but largely uncounted contribution to the creative economy made by creative citizens. The book then identifies other ways in which the potential of creative citizens can be ‘unbound’, in fields such as community journalism, planning and education.
Ian Hargreaves
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447324942
- eISBN:
- 9781447324966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324942.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
The idea of creative citizenship emerges through mainstream European and American communitarian thinking in centre-left and centre-right politics around the turn of the millennium, acquiring new ...
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The idea of creative citizenship emerges through mainstream European and American communitarian thinking in centre-left and centre-right politics around the turn of the millennium, acquiring new urgency and meanings in the political circumstances following the 2008 banking crisis. Simultaneously, the concept intersects with global digital media and other affordances of an increasingly mobile-accessed and globally accessible internet. The title of this book is explained, with reference to the imaginative, poetic and politically charged epic work of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound. The interdisciplinary research team’s working methodology, structure and ethos, is described, drawing particular attention to a co-creative working relationship with community partners.Less
The idea of creative citizenship emerges through mainstream European and American communitarian thinking in centre-left and centre-right politics around the turn of the millennium, acquiring new urgency and meanings in the political circumstances following the 2008 banking crisis. Simultaneously, the concept intersects with global digital media and other affordances of an increasingly mobile-accessed and globally accessible internet. The title of this book is explained, with reference to the imaginative, poetic and politically charged epic work of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound. The interdisciplinary research team’s working methodology, structure and ethos, is described, drawing particular attention to a co-creative working relationship with community partners.
