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Conviction Publics: The Politics of Personal Concern in the Digital Age

    Klein College of Media and Communication

    Abstract

    The post-broadcast age has raised significant concerns among scholars and pundits as it is believed to contribute to the fragmentation in the public agenda and decreases in political learning and participation. These concerns are based on an assumption that the broadcast age was a better information environment for political learning, mobilization, and participation—a place where people built consensus on which issues were most important to the nation. Kim challenges this assumption. Viewing public as a collection of issue-based, horizontally-distributed, pluralistic subsets of the population rather than aggregated individuals as a whole, and defining politics as the self-actualizing politicization of personal matters, Kim revisits the state of the citizenry in terms of interest, competence, organization, and participation, and redefines citizenry in the twenty-first century. Kim argues that the post-broadcast age indeed sets an (opportunistic) condition to develop “conviction publics”, i.e., value-oriented, identity-driven, and self-interested individuals who share almost exclusive interest in an issue of personal concern; organize their personal interest for collective action; and passionately engage in politics for the matters that personally concern them. With the empirical evidence from her research, in this talk, Kim identifies conviction publics and explains how the evolving media environment and changing socio-political contexts set a condition for the renewal of citizenry and how the renewed citizenry operates in policy implementation processes as well as everyday life in the twenty-first century.

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    Young Mie Kim is the Microsoft Visiting Professor at Princeton University (Fall 2015-Spring 2016) and an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Learn more: https://journalism.wisc.edu/sjmc_profile/young-mie-kim/

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    Created By: Klein College of Media and Communication
    Open To: Public
    Type: Lecture // Seminar

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