Institutioning and Community Radio. A comparative perspective

Cibin, Roberto; Teli, Maurizio; Robinson, Sarah

doi:10.1145/3328320.3328392

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“…The notion of community is complex and multifaceted. Long lasting criteria such as the sharing a place, an interest, or a condition have proven to be limited (Mosconi et al, 2017;Thinyane et al, 2018;Cibin et al, 2019;. This paper defines a community as the presence of dense social relations and of, at least, an element -being it geography, interests, specific conditions, or structural position in society in terms of power -tying together its members.…”

Section: Communities Are Often Not Determined a Priorimentioning

confidence: 99%

Guiding Principles for Participatory Design-inspired Natural Language Processing

Caselli¹,

Cibin²,

Conforti³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact

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We introduce 9 guiding principles 1 to integrate Participatory Design (PD) methods in the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. The adoption of PD methods by NLP will help to alleviate issues concerning the development of more democratic, fairer, less-biased technologies to process natural language data. This short paper is the outcome of an ongoing dialogue between designers and NLP experts and adopts a non-standard format following previous work by Traum (2000); Bender (2013); Abzianidze and Bos (2019). Every section is a guiding principle. While principles 1-3 illustrate assumptions and methods that inform community-based PD practices, we used two fictional design scenarios (Encinas and Blythe, 2018), which build on top of situations familiar to the authors, to elicit the identification of the other 6. Principles 4-6 describes the impact of PD methods on the design of NLP systems, targeting two critical aspects: data collection & annotation, and the deployment & evaluation. Finally, principles 7-9 guide a new reflexivity of the NLP research with respect to its context, actors and participants, and aims. We hope this guide will offer inspiration and a road-map to develop a new generation of PD-inspired NLP.

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Section: Communities Are Often Not Determined a Priorimentioning

confidence: 99%

Guiding Principles for Participatory Design-inspired Natural Language Processing

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Cibin²,

Conforti³

et al. 2021

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“…In addition, in our research we consider intermediaries as a category of human actors, individuals and organisations, involved in the innovation project, and not just an ethnographic representation of them, which is the case in participatory innovation in the commercial context. PD research also explores Institutioning [15,33,56], that is the interaction between design and institutional frameworks: intermediation, in this case, is described as the ability of PD researchers and practitioners to "act strategically aiming to trigger institutional transformation" [56:3]. In this context, PD designers are intermediaries that mediate misunderstandings with institutions, when there is a lack of alignment of the design process with institutional cultures and norms.…”

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“…In this context, PD designers are intermediaries that mediate misunderstandings with institutions, when there is a lack of alignment of the design process with institutional cultures and norms. Cibin and colleagues [15] described how grassroots communities involve new external allies to face institutional constraints related to the participatory design of a new technology. However, the influence of intermediaries in kick starting the project and in shaping the design and use of the technology through the interaction between developers and community members has not yet been analysed in-depth.…”

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“…Grassroot Wavelengths [15] is a project aimed at participatory innovation in the domain of media pluralism that started in 2018 and will receive funding until the end of 2020. The main goal is to support the creation of a network of FM community radio stations in isolated areas across Europe, fostering collective action, community deliberation, linguistic diversity and the free flow of information into and out of discrete geographic communities.…”

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Shaping Social Innovation in Local Communities

Cibin¹,

Robinson

Teli

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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Participatory social innovation projects often involve the coming together of design researchers, community development groups, and community members to develop (often technological) solutions to social problems or challenges. "Intermediaries" are specific individuals and organisations who contribute to these projects by translating intentions, values and experiences between design researchers and communities. Previous research has not yet critically examined the role of intermediaries in such projects. This paper does so in a project carried out in rural areas of Europe, which sought to test and develop a technology to support the creation of FM community radio stations in isolated areas. We present the project as a biography of infrastructures to provide an account of intermediaries' interactions during the project's unfolding. We find that how intermediaries shape the social base and ends of the project, and the interpretation of the technology involved, is influenced by their position, goals, and relationships in the process. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.

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“…How the production of goods and services, collaborative subjects, and collective narratives is legally, socially, and technically organized in platform initiatives (Lampinen and Brown, 2017)? How existing institutions support, favour, or create obstacles to caring and/or exploitative platforms (Cibin et al, 2019;Teli et al, 2020)? Before proceeding with the presentation of how the book addresses those issues, we need to take a step back and introduce some definitions on what we call "collaborative economy".…”

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Becoming a Platform in Europe: On the Governance of the Collaborative Economy

Teli

Bassetti

2021

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This article/publication is based upon work from COST Action CA16121, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation. www.cost.eu

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Institutioning and Community Radio. A comparative perspective

Cited by 23 publications

References 17 publications

Guiding Principles for Participatory Design-inspired Natural Language Processing

Guiding Principles for Participatory Design-inspired Natural Language Processing

Shaping Social Innovation in Local Communities

Becoming a Platform in Europe: On the Governance of the Collaborative Economy

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