From School Food to Skate Parks in a Few Clicks: Using Public Displays to Bootstrap Civic Engagement of the Young

Hosio, Simo; Kostakos, Vassilis; Kukka, Hannu; Jurmu, Marko; Riekki, Jukka; Ojala, Timo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31205-2_26

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“…Spatially situated engagement seeks to make relevant and meaningful to people the issues and topics of discussion that are in their close proximity as they move about their day [40]. Spatially situated technologies for civic engagement range from being stationary (installed at places of interest; e.g., [36,64,69,75]), to mobile (typically location-based and often with rich media capturing capabilities; e.g., [5,27,41,50]), to ubiquitous (more deeply embedded into the fabric of the city in the form of sensors, smaller pervasive displays, ubiquitous input/output modalities, etc. ; e.g., [43,72]).…”

Section: Situated Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life

Korn

Voida

2015

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This paper introduces the theoretical lens of the everyday to intersect and extend the emerging bodies of research on contestational design and infrastructures of civic engagement. Our analysis of social theories of everyday life suggests a design space that distinguishes 'privileged moments' of civic engagement from a more holistic understanding of the everyday as 'product-residue. ' We analyze various efforts that researchers have undertaken to design infrastructures of civic engagement along two axes: the everyday-ness of the engagement fostered (from 'privileged moments' to 'product-residue') and the underlying paradigm of political participation (from consensus to contestation). Our analysis reveals the dearth and promise of infrastructures that create frictionprovoking contestation through use that is embedded in the everyday life of citizens. Ultimately, this paper is a call to action for designers to create friction.

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Section: Situated Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life

Korn

Voida

2015

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“…For example, in one of their studies the research team investigated how can networked public displays be integrated with social media in order to attract young adults and solicit their opinions about the city of Oulu [14]. In a similar study the researchers were interested in soliciting community members' opinions about the ongoing construction works happening in the city [13].…”

Section: Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In cases where evaluation of the UBI-Hotspots was focused on understanding their impact on civic engagement (as in [13,14]), evaluation took place during scheduled field trials. During those the research team would typically conduct in-situ observations with at least two researchers present (observing how people engage and interact with the application), would distribute a questionnaire to the people who interacted with the application after their interactions, and would analysis of the posted content.…”

Section: Evaluation and Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The research around UBI-Hotspots revealed that social situation and users' age impact the way people use the displays, suggesting that younger crowds enjoy playful aspects of the applications, even when they are meant for serious things like civic engagement [14]. One of the interesting findings with respect to civic engagement is that younger people preferred to stay anonymous when they expressed their opinions or gave their feedback about important civic topics.…”

Section: Evaluation and Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding future challenges for networked public display systems in community settings

Memarović

2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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Networked public displays are envisioned as a communication medium for the 21 st century, and as such they have a great potential to address place-based communities. This area has seen an increasing numbers of investigations of networked public displays effects on communities and the way they impact interactions between community members. However, most of this research stands alone in isolation, with little work looking into synthesizing the systems, processes, research questions, and evaluation procedures and effects they produce. In this paper we look at seminal works in the area, i.e., the Wray Photo Display, the Plasma Poster Network, CoCollage, and UBI-Hotspots, and analyze the systems themselves, settings in which they were deployed and respective communities, the processes leading to building up the system, the research questions that were examined, and the effects of the networked public display systems on the community. We discuss the similarities and differences in these works and provide insights for the designers and developers of similar future systems, with a goal to present open challenges for the future work.

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“…In-situ technologies have been deployed in libraries [27], classrooms [4] and other public spaces such as in universities to increase civic engagement of the youth [10], public squares to support passive and active civic engagement [22] and others [32]. A subset of these systems utilizes both online and offline interfaces that allow citizens to either interact in-situ or exsitu.…”

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%