Buttons for Participation
Physical and tangible systems are increasingly being explored in an attempt to trigger discussions and collect data in the context of Digital …
Designing for Defiance: Antagonistic Activist ICTs
This week’s blog post focuses on the paper “Illegitimate Civic Participation: Supporting Community Activists on the Ground” by Asad and Le Dantec …
Data, Design and Digital Civics …whatever that is!
Data, Design and Civics: An Exploratory Study of Civic Tech Kirsten Boehner and Carl DiSalvo’s paper looks at perceptions of Civic Tech …
The City: The Data Factory
In the paper ‘Data and the City’[3] McMillan, Engström, Lampinen and Brown discuss the production and use of data across four cities …
Contest Hegemony!: HCI for Diverse and Plural Communities
A Critical Review of “Re-Making Places: HCI, ‘Community Building’ and Change” by Crivellaro et al. 2016 In this paper (Crivellaro et al. …
Meet The Datacatcher: Gotta Catch’em All!
In their paper “Datacatcher: Batch Deployment and Documentation of 130 Location-Aware, Mobile Devices That Put Sociopolitically-Relevant Big Data in People’s Hands: Polyphonic …
Imagining the Future: Speculative Civics
Carl DiSalvo et al’s 2016 paper, Designing Speculative Civics, explores how the idea of Research through Design (RtD) can be applied in a civic context to …
Keep Calm and Volunteer !
When I read the article by Voida, Yao and Korn (2015) entitled (Infra)structures of volunteering, I really could relate to what they …
Rhetoric and Representation in Transportation Planning: A Data With Destiny
What power does crowdsourced data have in the shaping of plans? Through conducting ethnographic fieldwork during a three-day urban planning event referred …
Whose participation is it anyway? Exploring publics, HCI and the Digital Civics agenda
Chris Le Dantec’s paper [1] details the design and deployment of a bespoke information system, the Community Resource Messenger (CRM), with a …