Planning and Social Media: Facebook for Planning at the Neighbourhood Scale

Afzalan, Nader; Evans-Cowley, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/02697459.2015.1052943

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“…There has been a growth of work in HCI for civic participation and community agendas to support citizens "on their own terms" [48]. Indeed, a wealth of research has focused on activism [1,24,49], opinion gathering [44,77,82], facilitating discussion and debate [8,23], and action [59,70] as well as the recognition of civic crowdsourcing for collective knowledge feeding into political decisions [32].…”

Section: Hci and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Media

Manuel

Vigar

Bartindale

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Neighbourhood planning devolves power to communities to create their own planning policy but traditional forms of participation are still relied upon. And despite the ubiquitous nature of technology in society, digital participation methods are rarely used. In this paper, we outline fieldwork with two neighbourhood planning groups who used participatory media technology to improve engagement though the art of storytelling. We focus on the configuration of participatory media as a way to widen participation and enable story creation and sharing amongst citizens. We highlight that storytelling using media technology can provide a model of and a model for the way we 'do' neighbourhood planning whilst emphasising the challenges of ensuring processes are linked to tangible actions and encouraging the multiplicity of stories.

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Section: Hci and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Media

Manuel

Vigar

Bartindale

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Social media has become a ubiquitous e-Planning tool, used by a wide range of urban stakeholders to foster discussion, participation, and engagement (Al-Kodmany et al, 2012;Willems & Alizadeh, 2015). Despite early hopes that it might lead to a "paradigm shift" in urban planning (Anttiroiko, 2012), the use of social media has generally not replaced existing top-down approaches with more participatory, bottom-up models (Afzalan & Evans-Cowley, 2015;Kleinhans et al, 2015). Therefore, although the goals of most civic crowdfunding projects are typically modest, it is a significant development since it presents a model for participatory e-Planning where social media participation not only results in fundraising-but also potentially fosters civic participation by the donors.…”

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Participatory E-Planning With Civic Crowdfunding

Goodspeed

2019

International Journal of E-Planning Research

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Civic crowdfunding, or recruiting participants and collecting financial donations online for local development projects with public benefits, is an increasingly popular method for participatory e-Planning at the neighborhood scale. However, little is known about the donors' backgrounds, project involvement, or social capital outcomes. This article reports on a survey of 154 donors to ten such projects that finds that they are geographically diverse, are older and whiter than the project tracts, report some volunteering activities, and experience modest changes to social capital outcomes. The article discusses implications of the findings, such as how practitioners can ensure inclusion of diverse people and encourages participation among donors, and what future research is needed.

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“…As argued by Afzalan and Evans-Cowley [48], the relatively large volume of social media data may increase the time and human costs of analyzing the data and thus make the new data source less valuable [48]. As a result, a number of scholars have explored the use of computer-aided methods to harvest and analyze information related to local government decision-making from social media [13,39].…”

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Understanding Public Opinions from Geosocial Media

Zhang

Feick

2016

IJGI

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Increasingly, social media data are linked to locations through embedded GPS coordinates. Many local governments are showing interest in the potential to repurpose these firsthand geo-data to gauge spatial and temporal dynamics of public opinions in ways that complement information collected through traditional public engagement methods. Using these geosocial data is not without challenges since they are usually unstructured, vary in quality, and often require considerable effort to extract information that is relevant to local governments' needs from large data volumes. Understanding local relevance requires development of both data processing methods and their use in empirical studies. This paper addresses this latter need through a case study that demonstrates how spatially-referenced Twitter data can shed light on citizens' transportation and planning concerns. A web-based toolkit that integrates text processing methods is used to model Twitter data collected for the Region of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) between March 2014 and July 2015 and assess citizens' concerns related to the planning and construction of a new light rail transit line. The study suggests that geosocial media can help identify geographies of public perceptions concerning public facilities and services and have potential to complement other methods of gauging public sentiment.

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Planning and Social Media: Facebook for Planning at the Neighbourhood Scale

Cited by 67 publications

References 71 publications

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