Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequalities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication.

• 1. Introduction 2. Engagement and participation: forms and practices 3. Voicing issues: the public sphere and the media 4. Digital media, social media and communication 5. The design and use of social media in forms of participation 6. Political culture: communication and ways of relating 7. Contexts of civic communication at the local, national and global level 8. Contexts of civic communication: campaigning, citizen journalism and general social media use in civic life 9. Networks of social media and civic engagement and participation 10. Communicative civic-ness: framing communication, civic engagement and participation 11. Conclusion: communicative civic-ness

Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequalities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication.

• 1. Introduction 2. Engagement and participation: forms and practices 3. Voicing issues: the public sphere and the media 4. Digital media, social media and communication 5. The design and use of social media in forms of participation 6. Political culture: communication and ways of relating 7. Contexts of civic communication at the local, national and global level 8. Contexts of civic communication: campaigning, citizen journalism and general social media use in civic life 9. Networks of social media and civic engagement and participation 10. Communicative civic-ness: framing communication, civic engagement and participation 11. Conclusion: communicative civic-ness