“It’s like a GPS community tool”: Tactics to foster Digital Commons through Artifact Ecology

Bettega, Mela; Masu, Raul; Teli, Maurizio

doi:10.1145/3461778.3462034

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“…To this end, we developed a three-phase project; all the phases were discussed with the two founders and leading promoters of the group in advance. A detailed account of this process is out of the scope of this paper and can be found in [9]. In the following paragraphs, we briefly outline the three phases to provide some context (blue in figure 2) to the reflections on digital commons that are the core of this paper (orange in figure 2).…”

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“…ioo.coop 8 ), or privacy and ethical oriented services (e.g. ethical.net 9 ). We relied on these resources to 1) actively search for tools; 2) make additional research and comparisons among tools after collecting participants' interests and values; 3) respond to their specific requests or needs.…”

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“…We conducted a series of activities to 1) understand participants' interests and values and which digital technologies they use; 2) use this information to select better fitting digital commons; 3) support the adoption of the selected tools. The core idea is to support participants' achievement of their own goals by facilitating the integration of digital commons in their everyday activities both at an individual level and in their collective and collaborative action (more details in [9]). In this paper, we focus on the second phase, the process of finding and selecting digital commons potentially beneficial to the group.…”

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Off-the-shelf digital tools as a resource to nurture the commons

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Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 1

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Commons and commoning are of increasing interest to the PD community. We argue that off-the-shelf digital commons can be used in the context of PD to support groups in their commoning practices. This approach presents some advantages: it allows focusing resources on participation rather than software development and it fosters sustainability of results when researchers leave. But how do we understand whether an off-the-shelf tool can be considered a commons or not? Where do we find digital commons? How do we select them? In this paper, we will try to answer these questions by proposing theoretical considerations and practical criteria based on the reflexive account of a case study in Europe.

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“…Digital commons are digital tools that can facilitate commoning practices, that is a shared organization of the management of resources. Bettega and colleagues [9] have recently proposed that digital commons can be commons in design when the digital tool is commonly realised (e.g. Free Software, see, for instance, [8]) or be commons through design when the digital tools support a shared management of a resource (such as locally produced electricity, e.g.…”

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Share Your Values! Community-Driven Embedding of Ethics in Research

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Masu²,

Chevalier

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Ethically-defensible research requires wide-ranging, holistic, and deep consideration. It is often overseen by Research Ethics Committees, Institutional Research Boards or equivalents but not all organisations have these and where they do, their degree of independence from organisational priorities varies (perhaps leading to research that would create reputational or other difficulties for organisations being left unpublished or unacknowledged). Conflicts of interest can therefore be left unmanaged, participants may be exploited, and society may not benefit. In this paper, we claim that publishing communities (e.g. scholarly conferences) can play a larger role in supporting improved ethical practice by defining and communicating the ethical values of their community's collective identity and aspirations. This approach is not prescriptive like procedural ethics nor as broad as general research ethics codes (both are important) but offers a tangible way to unify ethics concerns across research contexts.CCS Concepts: • Social and professional topics → Codes of ethics; User characteristics; • General and reference → General conference proceedings; Cross-computing tools and techniques; • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; HCI theory, concepts and models; Accessibility theory, concepts and paradigms.

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“…Where we have seen many studies of grassroots communities and their technologies in recent years (cf. [7,10,34]), the current study differs because of our focus on the overlapping but independent developmental processes of the grassroots community and software platform.…”

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Entangled Artifacts: The Meeting Between a Volunteer-run Citizen Science Project and a Biodiversity Data Platform

Tchernavskij

Bødker

2022

Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference

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Based on an empirical study of the citizen science initiative Biodiversity Galiano and the biodiversity data collection platform iNaturalist, this paper presents an analysis of the meeting between the technology adaptation processes of grassroots communities and the contemporary software development process. Where previous work has developed a theoretical account of how grassroots communities form around shared activities and assemble ecosystems of tools, we investigate how the contrasting means and ends of end-users and software developers shape and constrain this assembly process. We apply the activity-theoretical concept of Common Interactive Objects to analyze the role of iNaturalist as a key tool in the artifact ecology of Biodiversity Galiano on the one hand, and as the central product of its developers on the other. We find that this dual role for the platform creates tensions that both motivate and constrain the adaptation work within Biodiversity Galiano, and argue that in this respect our case is reflective of the general experience of grassroots communities who rely on platform software. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing.

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“It’s like a GPS community tool”: Tactics to foster Digital Commons through Artifact Ecology

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

Off-the-shelf digital tools as a resource to nurture the commons

Off-the-shelf digital tools as a resource to nurture the commons

Share Your Values! Community-Driven Embedding of Ethics in Research

Entangled Artifacts: The Meeting Between a Volunteer-run Citizen Science Project and a Biodiversity Data Platform

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