The Expressive Turn of Citizenship in Digital Late Modernity [Elektronisk resurs]

• The purpose of this paper is to connect the idea of expressive rationality to current debates on citizenship and political participation online. Socializing, cultural consumption/ production, identity management, information and publication strategies are both different and accentuated in digital, networked and late modern environments. In the paper I argue that the kind of network sociability that is emerging today favours an expressive form of rationality. I also claim that expressive rationality transcends the bipolar instrumental communicative dimension that has been so important for normative theorizing in Political (and Social) Sciences and hence is a more rewarding theoretical concept for understanding political participation in digital late modernity 

Ämnesord

Social Sciences  (hsv)

Media and Communications  (hsv)

Samhällsvetenskap  (hsv)

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap  (hsv)

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap  (uu)

Media and Communication Studies  (uu)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Expressive Rationality

Late Modernity

Digital Communication

Networked Individualism

Communicative Rationality

Instrumental Rationality