DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media

Urban Farm DB summary

A book (global scope) argues that DIY today describes more than self-taught carpentry, as social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways—such as Egypt's Twitter revolution of 2011—and to repurpose corporate content or create counter-narratives. Examining the diverse forms of political participation that have emerged in recent years, contributors describe DIY citizens ranging across activist fan blogging and video production to knitting and the creation of community gardens, covering DIY activism, DIY making in learning/culture/hacking/the arts, DIY and design, and DIY and media.