What Lessons to Bear Forth?

This book has offered unique insight into specific textual approaches and modes of sharing used by marginalised (and in some cases stigmatised) people. I have highlighted the labour involved in negotiating and managing privacy and publicness across networked online and face-to-face environments. While Intimate Citizenship 3.0 is fraught with risk, the rewards include greater cultural and civic engagement and erosive social change. These new understandings can be usefully mapped onto other contexts in which digital tools and platforms are being used to facilitate engagement and empowerment, for example among young people who strive to overcome bullying, or older people who seek a way out of social isolation. In the following I present four summative points as they emerge during my representative chapters on voice, identity and networked publics.