Everyday Makers Research Articles

Digital Everyday Maker: Praktik Governance dalam Ruang Digital


 The appearance of Dr. Tirta's participation in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic went viral on social media. This study positions Dr. Tirta as an everyday maker in governance. The aim of this research is to fill the research gap in everyday maker studies, namely exploring everyday makers in a digital context. This research uses an online-based case study method that collects data from online sources. The data analysis technique consists of three stages, namely observation, combining and grouping. This study succeeded in looking at the everyday maker in the digital world, namely the form of work in the digital world and the transformation of the everyday maker concept in the digital space as follows; First, do it yourself reinforcement. Everyday makers no longer need a large number of members to create a movement because they are assisted by the digital context of the virtual world. Second, local coverage from conventional everyday makers who face local problems can now reach things that everyday makers could not reach before. Further discussion is needed regarding the effectiveness of social media for everyday makers, in other words, regardless of the influencer's identity, they do not have social capital.

De facto international prosecutors in a global era: with my own eyes; The everyday makers of international law: from great halls to back rooms

De facto international prosecutors in a global era: with my own eyes; The everyday makers of international law: from great halls to back rooms

Crafting, connecting, and commoning in everyday maker projects

Makerspaces have spread to schools, museums, and libraries around the world. These are spaces that make technology construction more accessible and afford practices that situate makers as everyday designers. In this paper, the connection between makerspaces and makers' everyday lives is examined. For this study, thirteen makers were interviewed about the process of their everyday maker projects, and the data material was analyzed for practices, reflections on agency, and relations to places like the makerspace, the home, and beyond. Three distinct practices have been discovered and are described. Crafting is an individual, recreative, skillful, and immersive practice that connects to an individual workspace aside from the makerspace. Connecting is a creative, object-oriented, and interventionist practice that connects to everyday life situations open for inventions. Commoning is a social and communal practice that connects to the makerspace community. The makers' practices inform a discussion of the agency the makerspace enables, and the spatial practices that both enable and constrain actions. Also, because makerspaces are places that intend to make technology construction accessible and inclusive, diversity in maker communities, barriers to inclusion, and strategies to overcome these are discussed.

Celebrity Everyday Maker: Public Policy and the Discourse of Celebrity Surrounding Kim Kardiashian

The rise in mass media and transition to networked governance, coupled with a shift to ‘policy-politics’, has left the lines separating politics and celebrity culture blurred and indistinguishable. Using Kim Kardashian's efforts to establish criminal justice reform this research explores what is the celebrity role in policy making and how are these policymaking efforts portrayed using an analysis of the media discourse. This research finds that the media discourse is focused on the celebrity, particularly their importance, shifting focus away from the policy and the affect communities. In terms of her role in the policy process, this research finds that Kim Kardashian is approaching policy making less like a policy entrepreneur or activist but more like an everyday maker. For public administration this raises important questions about celebrities ability to bring awareness to an issue and how to engage everyday makers in the policy making process.

Dialogue in print advertising messages

The interrelations between the participants of the act of communication are based on a dialogue. Print advertising messages are the way of addressing potential customers (addressee). Advertisers (addresser) aim to induce consumers’ desire to have a suggested product or service, to obtain it. To make advertising effective the conversation between close people is imitated, means of expression characteristic to colloquial speech and usual for everyone are used.The article deals with the forms and peculiarities of the dialogue that is actualized in print advertising messages. The statements of one speaker (usually it is the addresser), i. e. cues, can be unexpressed, unspoken, but they are crucial, because they condition the content and form of the expressed (second collocutor’s) speech – in this case a dialogical monologue is used. The participant of the dialogue – the addresser – speaks on his/her behalf or indirectly through the characters of the advertisements.In advertising messages three types of dialogue are actualized: 1. imitated dialogue between an addresser and an addressee – it is composed of questions and answers; 2. direct address of the speaker (addresser) expressed in a monologue; 3. hidden address of the speaker (addresser) expressed in the speech of the characters of the advertisement: monologues and dialogues.Dialogues show that those who suggest the product present themselves as solvers of everyday life problems, order makers, providers and promoters of welfare and satisfaction. They are helpful and kind people caring for the consumers of the product and close to them in various nice features.The main means of expression of the dialogue – addresses and forms of imperative mood (by which the straightforward urge to buy is expressed) or the forms of the pronouns tu, jūs, mes (you singular, you plural, we) and the present tense (by which the advertiser’s intentions are concealed).

MamaBakers as Everyday Makers: the political is personal

ABSTRACTHenrik Bang's concept of the Everyday Maker as a new type of political identity has been increasingly utilised in empirical research across a wide range of settings. In an age with numerous accounts of the changing nature of political participation, Bang's framework enables a critical investigation of contemporary participation. Although one of the key defining characteristics of the Everyday Maker is that their activity often occurs outside the formal political sphere, there is no empirical work to date which uses Bang's frame to examine gendered activities which appear private and social, with no obvious connections to the ‘political’. To address this omission, this article explores women's participation in an Australian community group, MamaBake using the Everyday Maker framework to provide an alternative reading of what might be termed personalised politics. The article argues that the new type of political identity, is also prevalent in the social context, and demonstrates why this is relevant to the study of political participation. It also challenges the idea that the new forms are increasingly characterised by ‘engagement norms’. The data for the case study research is drawn from a survey of the MamaBake members, and interviews with the real life participants.

Swedish Muslims and Secular Society: Faith-Based Engagement and Place

This article sets out to explore how Muslims in Sweden identify with and create social life in the place where they live, that is, in their neighbourhood, in their town/city and in Swedish society at large. In a paradoxical religious landscape that includes a strong Lutheran state church heritage and a Christian free-church tradition, in what is, nevertheless, a very secular society, Muslims may choose different strategies to express their faith, here roughly described as “retreatist,” “engaged” or “essentialist/antagonistic.” Focusing on a non-antagonistic, engaged stance, and drawing upon a combination of authors' interviews, and materials published in newspapers and on the Internet, we first bring to the fore arguments by Muslim leaders in favour of creating a Muslim identity with a Swedish brand, and second give some examples of local Muslim individuals, acting as everyday makers in their neighbourhood, town or city. Third, we also give attention to an aggressively negative Islamophobic stance expressed both in words and in physical violence in parts of Swedish society. In conclusion, we reflect upon the challenges and potentialities of an emotionally engaged, dialogue-orientated Muslim position facing antagonistic interpretations of Islam, and an ignorant, sometimes Islamophobic, environment.

Localism in Practice: Investigating Citizen Participation and Good Governance in Local Government Standards of Conduct

This article examines how, against a background of localism endorsed by the 2010 coalition government in the United Kingdom, a key component of local integrity and governance was fundamentally altered. The Localism Act 2011 abolished the English local integrity framework, which relied on the participation of local citizens in the policy making and implementation of local government standards of conduct. The article utilizes Henrik Bang's concepts of “expert citizen” and “everyday maker” to explore citizen participation in local standards committees. Using a case study approach, the article demonstrates how standards committees shaped processes and practices in the local governance of integrity. The authors argue that standards committees were crucial in promoting local participation and enhancing good governance.

Just do it differently? Everyday making, Marxism and the struggle against neoliberalism

The concept of everyday making has become a powerful influence on activists and academics looking for ways to transcend neoliberalism. For everyday makers, democratic and egalitarian spaces are created in the cracks and fissures of power by deciding, in the first place, to act differently. Drawing on Marx’s theory of capital and crisis, this paper rejects the choice between everyday and systemic perspectives. The challenges today are threefold: how to rollback the market, understanding how community and workplace struggles reinforce one another, and grasping the dynamics of scale: the systemic implications of everyday struggles and vice-versa.

The Democratic Worth of Celebrity Politics in an Era of Late Modernity

In a seminal article published in 2004, John Street argued that celebrity politics has provided a greater expression for the enhancement of democratic behaviour. Consequently, this analysis builds on Street's thesis to consider the worth of celebrity politics in an era of late modernity. To this end, it employs Henrik Bang's and John Keane's constructs of Everyday Makers and Monitory Democracy, which have emphasised the importance of ‘involvement’, ‘voice’ and ‘output’ in terms of representation, to provide an ideological framework to capture the value of celebrity politics. Subsequently, it may be argued that Barack Obama utilised a form of ‘liquid’ celebrity in his 2008 US presidential campaign to reconnect with a disenfranchised electorate. However, this article will critically assess these types of celebrity politics to contend that aggregated forms of ‘input’ drawn from celebrity activism may more truly affect political outcomes.

‘Yes we can’: identity politics and project politics for a late-modern world

There is widespread agreement in mainstream participation studies that social capital and civic engagement in Western democracies are in steady and continuous decline. How did it happen, then, that Barack Obama was able to mobilize tens of millions of volunteers and supporters for his spectacularly successful and novelty-creating presidential campaign? Part of the answer is that his campaign was directed to building political capital for solving common policy concerns. This marks a creative shift in political communication from being oriented towards keeping government effective and legitimate to getting people freely and actively to accept and help in executing what has to be done in order to solve common concerns. The paper discusses why this shift has not been detected by mainstream participation studies, following their development in Almond and Verba's civic culture, through Putnam's social capital framework, to Norris's cause-oriented politics. Later, Marsh et al.'s new politics of lived experience is introduced and connected to the project politics model for studying ‘everyday makers and expert citizens’. The conclusion is that Obama's rhetoric in particular appeals to everyday makers and expert citizens, and that their reciprocal resonance opens for a fusion of identity politics and project politics in a new, much more communicative and interactive democratic model for doing what neither neoliberalism nor statism apparently can do: getting things done in prudent manner by establishing more balanced and discursive two-way relations of autonomy and dependence between political authorities and lay people.

New Forms of Political Participation: Searching for Expert Citizens and Everyday Makers

Declining political participation has caused much concern among political scientists and politicians. This article builds upon Henrik Bang's conceptualization of Expert Citizens and Everyday Makers as new forms of political participation. Using the 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey, we identify four types of political participant: Political Activists, Expert Citizens, Everyday Makers and Non-Participants. We assess the socio-demographic and cultural factors underlying these different types of participant. We then move on to explore the association between the types of political participation and two domains of political beliefs/actions: political trust and efficacy; and political contacting and voice. Our analysis shows significant differences between the types of participant in the two domains under investigation and thus lends support to our development of Bang's conceptualization of new forms of political participation as useful tools in empirical research.

Everyday Fixers as Local Heroes: A Case Study of Vital Interaction in Urban Governance

This article exemplifies the importance of viable coalitions in processes of neighbourhood development and local governance. Elaborating on the notion of the ‘everyday maker’, discovered in Danish local politics by Bang and Sörensen, this article further explores the characteristics and conditions of organising capacity, using the case of the Neighbourhood Development Corporation in the Dutch city of The Hague as a paradigmatic case. This case shows that individual actors, ‘everyday fixers’ or ‘local heroes’, can make a real difference in local politics if they are well connected to a supportive structure and if they are sensitive to the logic of the situation at hand. Context matters, sometimes impedes, but smart individuals can also make it work.

The Everyday Maker: A New Challenge to Democratic Governance

A powerful feature of Putnam’s social capital framework is the attention it directs towards a critical question for democracies: How is democratic civic engagement created, sustained and expanded (cf Levi, 1996, p. 52) However, Putnam’s investigation into this problem neglects considerations concerning the consequences of the ongoing transition of democratic government into democratic governance. As a result, his evaluation of the state of affairs of Western democracy becomes more gloomy than need be. A study of democratic governance and civic engagement in Denmark draws the contours of a new political identity, the Everyday Maker. The Everyday Maker represents a new form of political engagement, which attempts to combine individuality and commonality in new relations of self-and co-governance. Seen from Putnam’s government perspective there is a serious risk that the researcher comes to ignore the political potential of the Everyday Makers and see them as nothing but individuals “bowling alone.”

Political Justification, Theoretical Complexity, and Democratic Community

Previous articleNext article No AccessPolitical Justification, Theoretical Complexity, and Democratic CommunityChristopher BertramChristopher Bertram Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 107, Number 4Jul., 1997 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/233760 Views: 14Total views on this site Citations: 9Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1997 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Peter Niesen Truth-tracing versus truth-tracking: Lafont, Landemore and epistemic democracy, Philosophy & Social Criticism 47, no.11 (Dec 2020): 31–34.https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453720974714Sean Donahue Public Justification and the Veil of Testimony*, Journal of Political Philosophy 28, no.44 (Apr 2020): 378–396.https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12216Luke Ulaş Can political realism be action-guiding?, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 107 (Jun 2020): 1–26.https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1774855Cathrine Holst, Anders Molander Public deliberation and the fact of expertise: making experts accountable, Social Epistemology 31, no.33 (Jun 2017): 235–250.https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2017.1317865Alice Baderin Political theory and public opinion, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 15, no.33 (Aug 2016): 209–233.https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X15621044Annette Schmitt Die Rolle von Wahlen in der Demokratie, (Aug 2014): 3–35.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05164-8_1JONATHAN WHITE, LEA YPI On Partisan Political Justification, American Political Science Review 105, no.22 (Apr 2011): 381–396.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055411000074Henrik P. Bang, Sørensen Eva The Everyday Maker: A New Challenge to Democratic Governance, Administrative Theory & Praxis 21, no.33 (Jan 2016): 325–341.https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.1999.11643381 by A. John Simmons Justification and Legitimacy Simmons, Ethics 109, no.44 (Jul 2015): 739–771.https://doi.org/10.1086/233944