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spir-8495	Gordon, Eric; Mihailidis, Paul	CIVIC MEDIA: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELEVANCE	2015.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2120	116	52	From the widespread use of social media to aid in campaigns and democratic movements throughout the world, to debates over the public’s right to data or the individual’s right to protect their data from public use, to government’s design and deployment of digital tools, the umbrella of civic media has widened. TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELEVANCE Eric Gordon Emerson College Paul Mihailidis Emerson College In 2007, Henry Jenkins wrote on the occasion of the founding of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT, that civic media refers to “any use of any medium which fosters or enhances civic engagement.”	cache/spir-8495.pdf	txt/spir-8495.txt