Climate-conscious citizenship in a digital urban setting
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https://doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v27i50.2723Keywords:
Climate change, Socially responsible consumer, Citizenship,Abstract
Climate change has challenged urban life, and as an omnipresent force, Nature sets the agenda for urban living. Using stakeholder theory to conceptualise urban life, we approach Nature as both an omnipresent stakeholder and an issue to be continuously addressed and related to. Adapting the stakeholder focus to relations, stakes and values, we conceptually analyse the digital installation entitled CO2mmitment/CO2nfessions, which was a prominent part of the Aarhus CO2030 exhibition launching the vision of the Danish city of Aarhus to become carbon neutral by the year 2030. In the analysis, we explore how the citizen is framed and invited to enact his/her responsibilities to the natural environment in an urban setting and how the digital mediation facilitates various forms of relations and climate conscious positions, incorporating both narcissistic desires, universal anxiety, moral obligations, ethical virtue and image performance. Statements from the actual confessors/committers exemplify this. Thus, the paper provides insight into understanding the complexity of climate-conscious citizenship as a complex configuration of paradoxical, co-existing ethics and arguments.Downloads
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2011-06-27
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Andersen, S. E., & Nielsen, A. E. (2011). Climate-conscious citizenship in a digital urban setting. MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 27(50), 24 p. https://doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v27i50.2723
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