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I found that the spaces that were most rich in examples of vernacular creativity were at the same time constrained in certain ways

the most active, intensive forms of participation seem to be taken up mainly by already-literate bloggers, gamers, and internet junkies

The point is, culture doesn¹t have to be sublime or spectacular to be useful or significant or interesting to someone, somewhere. But what I find most interesting about vernacular creativity in the context of the new media generally and the Internet particularly is the potential to scale that immediate social context add up to social connectivity, and conversation, to individualistic self-expression.

focus on participation and creativity, rather than resistance

shifts the questions that we need to ask about the cultural politics of media slightly sideways from being only about power, exploitation and resistance to questions of voice, cultural inclusion, and so on and those questions seem to me to offer more hope for pragmatic interventions.

But I think some of the most interesting forms of civic engagement occur where the everyday and popular collide with the political

cultural citizenship

that cultural citizenship was not only constituted online, but through the articulation of the online social network with everyday, local experience.

The Uses of YouTube, which combines large-scale content analysis with fine-grained qualitative methods