Introduction to the media, political participation and empowerment / Roman Gerodimos ... [and others] -- Media, politics and empowerment : in whose interests? / Heather Savigny -- Empowering the citizens? Political communication, co-production and the harnessed crowd / Darren G. Lilleker -- Attack advertising as an agent of British youth political disempowerment? A review of empirical evidence from the 2010 British general election / Janine Dermody ... [and others] -- Governmentality, populism and empowerment : David Cameron's rhetoric of the big society / Michael Higgins -- Closing the gap? Twitter as an instrument for connected representation / Todd Graham, Marcel Broersma and Karin Hazelhoff -- Is 'empowerment' still a useful concept? Rethinking media practice with Rancière and the 'emancipated spectator' / Felicitas Macgilchrist -- Digital participation in news media : 'minimalist' views versus meaningful interaction / Tamara Witschge -- Routinisation of audience participation : BBC news online, citizenship and democratic debate / Einar Thorsen -- Façadelifts : new media installations, public space and the negotiation of civic identity / Gabriel Menotti -- Claims-makers versus counter claims-makers : new sites of civic empowerment in the construction, affirmation and contestation of moral panic narratives through online newspaper discussion-threads / James Morrison -- Introducing 'citizen diplomacy 2.0' : a framework for the study of online engagement with global affairs / Roman Gerodimos -- Disabled people, digital campaigns and contentious politics : upload successful or connection failed? / Filippo Trevisan -- Youth and websites : exploring how young people use the internet for political participation / Janelle Ward -- 'Ooh, politics. You're brave'. Politics in everyday talk : an analysis of three 'non-political' online spaces / Daniel Jackson, Richard Scullion and Mike Molesworth -- Audience empowerment and the politics of representation in two radio talk shows in post-apartheid South Africa / Jendele Hungbo -- Civic and audience empowerment : the role of citizen journalism / Mick Temple -- Concluding remarks / Richard Scullion ... [and others] -- Afterword / Stuart Allan
