The affordances of social media for inclusive urban communities and the need for 'multi-scalar' approaches

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  2. Dr Graeme Mearns
  3. Ranald Richardson
Author(s)Mearns G, Richardson R
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Publication type Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Conference Name3rd RCUK Digital Economy All Hands Meeting
Conference LocationAberdeen, UK
Year of Conference2012
Date23-25 October 2012
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During the past three years, communities have once again been foregrounded in political agendas (like the UK coalition government’s ‘Big Society’), ICTs have been reinserted into local policy domains, and claims about people’s galvanizing through social media towards civic participation have been made in abundance (Mossberger et al. 2008). Whilst the concept of ‘community’ is notoriously slippery and has been widely contested within the social sciences since their inception (Delanty, 2010) a new phase of attentiveness to community has clearly been entered in the UK context. Against this backdrop, this work is concerned with what social media add and subtract from the concept of community, and what this might mean for how social media are approached at the local level to support social inclusion.
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