From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action

Johnson, Ian G., Vines, John and Al-Shahrabi, Dalya (2020) From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action. In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20): April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, p. 3376464. ISBN 9781450367080

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the role of technology to address the concerns of a civil society group carrying out community-level consultation on the allocation of £1 million of community funds. We explore issues of devolved decision-making through the evaluation of a sociodigital system designed to foster deliberative virtues. We describe the ways in which this group used our system in their consultation practices. Our findings highlight how they adopted our technology to privilege specific forms of expression, ascertain issues in their community, make use of and make sense of community data, and create resources for action within their existing practices. Based on related fieldwork we discuss the impacts of structuring and configuring tools for 'talk-based' consultation in order to turn attention to the potential pitfalls and prospects for designing civic technologies that create resources for action for civil society.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: Funding information: Thank you to our collaborators at the Trust, for placing their trust in our work and taking our research forward. This research was funded through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics (EP/L016176/1). Data supporting this publication is openly available under an 'Open Data Commons Open Database License'. Additional metadata are available at: 10.25405/data.ncl.11534097. Please contact Newcastle Research Data Service at rdm@ncl.ac.uk for access instructions.
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
W200 Design studies
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Design
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2020 16:24
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 15:45
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41951

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