{"id":463,"date":"2012-01-31T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-01-31T19:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T00:32:32","slug":"theda-skocpol-on-civic-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2012\/01\/31\/theda-skocpol-on-civic-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Theda Skocpol on Civic Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we thought we&#8217;d dig back into the Office Hours archives a bit and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2009\/08\/31\/free-riders-loudmouths-obama-and-political-participation\/\">revisit an interview<\/a> we did with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/soc\/faculty\/skocpol\/\">Theda Skocpol<\/a> from 2009 on media, the Internet, and civic participation in the 2008 election. A few years later, we&#8217;reright in the middle of another election cycle and questions about the impact of traditional media and online social media are as pertinent as ever, so we thought it&#8217;d be a good time to think back to a time when a younger Barack Obama was striding into office with the promise of a new post-partisan era of American political engagement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in what Skocpol has been up to in the time since this interview, check out her new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/Politics\/AmericanPolitics\/?view=usa&amp;ci=9780199832637\">The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH38_Skocpol.mp3\">Download Office Hours #38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we thought we&#8217;d dig back into the Office Hours archives a bit and revisit an interview we did with Theda Skocpol from 2009 on media, the Internet, and civic participation in the 2008 election. A few years later, we&#8217;reright in the middle of another election cycle and questions about the impact of traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[129,85],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-media","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}