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Maria Bakardjieva
Maria Bakardjieva is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Canada. She holds a doctorate in Sociology from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a doctorate in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life (2005, Sage) and co-editor of How Canadians Communicate (2004, 2007, University of Calgary Press). Her research has examined Internet use practices across different social and cultural context with a focus on the ways in which users understand and appropriate the communication possibilities offered by the new media. She has also published on the topics of online community, e-learning and research ethics. Everyday Practices of Citizenship in the Age of the Internet This talk draws on citizenship theory and empirical research of Internet use to propose a new perspective on civic engagement as it emerges amidst everyday life. The objective of the argument is to identify the ways in which users employ the Internet to form and enact positions of political and civic nature. Even though this sometimes happens in small and apparently banal forms, the practices of citizenship immersed in everyday life represent a reservoir of energy that should be properly understood and appreciated by political and civic organizations.
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