Understanding new media and participatory culture: Well-being or ill-being?

Titolo Rivista RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Autori/Curatori Mariusz Baranowski
Anno di pubblicazione 2022 Fascicolo 2021/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 20 P. 351-370 Dimensione file 224 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2021-002023
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This article deals with participatory culture through the prism of new media, identi-fied as standard with the development of information and communication tech-nologies (ICT) and information technology (IT). These technologies (co-)constitute the foundation of the network society, also referred to as the information society, and influence the economy and - undoubtedly - the cultural sphere. The main re-search problem posed in this article concerns reflections on participation patterns mediated by the new media in the context of psychological well-being and its op-posite the state of ill-being. This task requires a redefinition of the notions of par-ticipatory culture and new media and the adoption of specific determinants of well-being and ill-being, which - unlike in the case of the psychology of happiness - is concretised through sociologically understood categories of redistribution and recognition.

Keywords:ill-being, new media, participatory culture, psychological well-being, recognition, redistribution.

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Mariusz Baranowski, Understanding new media and participatory culture: Well-being or ill-being? in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 2/2021, pp 351-370, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2021-002023