Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Hilde C. Stephansen is a Research Associate in the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and PoLIS at the Open University. Her research focuses on how communication practices can contribute to the formation of publics and to processes of knowledge production. Her role at the Open University is connected to the Creating Publics project and the Public Engagement with Research Catalyst project.
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Published in: Participation NowParticipation Now: patterns, possibilities, politicsAt one end of this spectrum we have started to place initiatives that offer to rationalise public engagement and...
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Published in: Participation NowVolatile, stable and extractive participationAt a conference on the theme of ‘Participatory Cultural Citizenship’ in Aarhus, Denmark last November, Participation...
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Published in: Participation NowWhen is citizen participation transformative?When is participation empowering and transformative? What is the relationship between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’...
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Published in: Participation NowParticipatory public engagement: reshaping what it means to be public?In exactly what ways can participation and public engagement address the contemporary crises of democracy, expertise...
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Published in: HomeMedia activism in the World Social Forum'Communicate to mobilise to communicate'. The WSF has been referred to as an emergent global public sphere; however,...