Chapter 17: Communication as Political Participation
By: Todd Kelshaw
Keywords:communication processes; currencies; fluids; hate; negotiation; persuasive communication; politics
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As you read the words political participation, maybe you envision protesters or ralliers carrying signs and chanting, community-meeting members deliberating over coffee, poll workers signing in voters, or other decidedly “civic” behaviors. Perhaps, as well, you assign the phrase some kind of value, distinguishing it from terms like political apathy and disenfranchisement. Likely you think of political participation as some kind of potentially empowering democratic activity set within a particular sphere, which overlaps with “public” but diverges from “private.” In other words, you may view political participation as one kind of contextualized communication that sometimes you do and sometimes—that is, most of the time—you don't do. Certainly, this conception is useful because it allows us to embody civil ...
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Kelshaw, T. (2006). Communication as political participation. In G. J. ShepherdJ. St. John, & T. Striphas (Eds.), Communication as…: Perspectives on theory (pp. 155-163). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483329055.n17
Kelshaw, Todd. "Communication as Political Participation." In Communication as…: Perspectives on Theory, edited by Shepherd, Gregory J., Jeffrey St. John, and Ted Striphas, 155-63. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483329055.n17.
Kelshaw, T. 2006. Communication as Political Participation. In: Gregory J. Shepherd, Jeffrey St. John and Ted Striphas Editors, 2006. Communication as…: Perspectives on Theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 155-163 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483329055.n17> [Accessed 9 Dec 2021].
Kelshaw, Todd. "Communication as Political Participation." Communication as…: Perspectives on Theory. Edited by Gregory J. ShepherdJeffrey St. John and Ted Striphas. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006, pp. 155-63. SAGE Knowledge. 9 Dec 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483329055.n17.