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Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson

Lecturer

ian.johnson2@newcastle.ac.uk

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I am a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction and Community Technologies at Open Lab, Newcastle University. I have a background in the social sciences and my PhD in Digital Civics was interdisciplinary across the School of Politics and the School of Computing.

My PhD work explored how social theory ideals are enacted through sociotechnical interventions, drawing on political theory and deliberative democracy research to examine the role of civil society and other facets of active citizenship in shaping their communities.

My work involves taking a place-based, participatory and action-led approach to collaboration with a range of community organisations, carrying out ethnographic field work and designing, deploying and evaluating novel consultation technologies, concentrating on the role of stakeholders, and the meaningfulness and validity of data as part of campaigning, consulting, and everyday life.

My research, published in CHI and CSCW, has investigated the role of the researcher, and stakeholder power and influence during technology deployments related to local decision-making, explored the interplay between data, knowledge and evidence in local-level policymaking, on the creation of spaces for civic discourse, and on the way citizen-led organisations can create resources for democratic action through configuring participation during local consultation.

I was an Innovation Fellow on the EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens – Next Stage Digital Economy Centre (2020-2023) leading projects on Disinformation and Rural Informatics.

I was the Community Researcher for Not-Equal, an EPSRC Network+ on Social Justice through the Digital Economy (2018-2020). The project aimed to establish interdisciplinary innovative methods and technologies through a collaborative partnership-based approach.

For more information, see my Newcastle University profile.

My up-to-date publication list is on Google Scholar. Please get in touch on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Civic Probes: a method for designing civic technologies with communities

Ian Johnson Vasilis Vlachokyriakos Joseph Hutchinson ⋯
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Rural informatics

Ian Johnson
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Creating a community panel to review HCI research proposals

Ian Johnson Clara Crivellaro
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Ambit: From creating spaces for civic discourse to creating resources for action

Ian Johnson Dalya Al-Shahrabi
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It’s Our Future: putting young people at the centre of building their future

Kieran Cutting Emily Barker Daniel Parry ⋯
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Not-Equal: Exploring social justice in the digital economy

Clara Crivellaro Ian Johnson Rachel Sparks ⋯
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Data:In Place: Making open data work for communities

Aare Puussaar Phil James Pete Wright ⋯

2024

Socio-digital Rural Resilience: An Exploration of Information Infrastructures Within and Across Rural Villages During Covid-19

Johnson IG Vlachokryiakos V Vasilis Vlachokyriakos

2024 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3637400

Civic Probes: A Method That Embeds Questions of Civic Infrastructure and Participation

Johnson IG Vlachokyriakos V

2024 – Interactions

Open website 10.1145/3643057

The Potential and Implications of Generative AI on HCI Education

Kharrufa A Johnson IG

2024 – EduCHI '24: 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education

Open website 10.1145/3658619.3658627

Design Implications for a Social and Collaborative Understanding of online Information Assessment Practices, Challenges and Heuristics

Vlachokyriakos V Johnson I G Anderson R Claisse C Zhang V Briggs P

2024 – Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Open website 10.48340/ecscw2024_n04

2021

Opening research commissioning to civic participation: creating a community panel to review the social impact of HCI research proposals

Johnson IG Crivellaro C

2021 – CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3411764.3445113

2020

From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action

Johnson IG Al-Shahrabi D Vines J

2020 – Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’20

Open website 10.1145/3313831.3376464

2018

Making open data work for civic advocacy

Puussaar A Johnson IG Montague K James P Wright P

2018 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3274412

Neighbourhood Data: Exploring the Role of Open Data in Locally Devolved Policymaking Processes

Johnson IG Puussaar A Manuel J Wright P

2018 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3274352

Assessing the Potential of Mini-Publics to Promote Evidence Uptake in Social Policy and Practice

Elstub S Johnson I Puttick R Wilkinson M

2018 – Nesta

Open website

2017

Community Conversational: Supporting and Capturing Deliberative Talk in Local Consultation Processes

Johnson IG MacDonald A Briggs J Manuel J Salt K Flynn E Vines J

2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3025453.3025559

2016

Reflections on Deploying Distributed Consultation Technologies with Community Organisations

Johnson I Vines J Taylor N Jenkins E Marshall J

2016 – CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2858036.2858098

Overcoming Inequalities in Citizen Participation in Participatory Budgeting

Elstub S Johnson I Puttick R

2016 – Edinburgh City Council

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