Leah A. Lievrouw joined the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1995. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between media and information technologies and social change.
When is participation empowering and transformative? What is the relationship between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ modes of participation? At a conference on the theme of ‘Participatory Cultural Citizenship’ in Aarhus, last November, keynote speaker Leah Lievrouw shared her thoughts on this with Par