From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Mon May 2 21:51:11 2016 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 21:51:11 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure ~~ you tell me! Message-ID: <8F1208E4-7ADD-4500-A0DB-E117A359E8C8@publicsphereproject.org> Greetings from Seattle! I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's why I'm writing to you all. If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help inform the project. Please send me your thoughts on this. Thanks!! — Doug Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.foth at qut.edu.au Tue May 3 05:56:35 2016 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:56:35 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure ~~ you tell me! In-Reply-To: <8F1208E4-7ADD-4500-A0DB-E117A359E8C8@publicsphereproject.org> References: <8F1208E4-7ADD-4500-A0DB-E117A359E8C8@publicsphereproject.org> Message-ID: <26ABC1C4-FB26-4348-B26C-36CAD17E04E4@qut.edu.au> Hi Doug not sure what exactly you mean by "open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project,” but three examples come to mind: 1. Beautiful Trouble http://beautifultrouble.org 2. There are a whole bunch of related projects in the media architecture space, such as this interactive “speaker’s corner” project: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/18/megaphone-free-speech We review some of these examples in this paper: Caldwell, G., & Foth, M. (2014, Nov 19-22). DIY Media Architecture: Open and Participatory Approaches to Community Engagement. In Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 (pp. 1-10). Aarhus, Denmark. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77903/ [The next MAB conference is 3 weeks away: http://mab16.org] 3. With regards to "open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication,” I’m reminded of my colleague Bob Dick’s page on Dialectical processes, "in which dialectical processes (which craft agreement out of disagreement) are described, and contrasted with adversarial and consensual processes .” http://www.aral.com.au/resources/dialectic.html hope this helps cheers, marcus -- Professor Marcus Foth i/Director, QUT Design Lab School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de CRICOS No. 00213J ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org > On 3 May 2016, at 2:51 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: > > Greetings from Seattle! > > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's why I'm writing to you all. > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help inform the project. > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > Twitter: @doug_schuler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce From panayotis at nethood.org Tue May 3 10:10:08 2016 From: panayotis at nethood.org (panayotis antoniadis) Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 19:10:08 +0200 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure ~~ you tell me! In-Reply-To: <26ABC1C4-FB26-4348-B26C-36CAD17E04E4@qut.edu.au> References: <8F1208E4-7ADD-4500-A0DB-E117A359E8C8@publicsphereproject.org> <26ABC1C4-FB26-4348-B26C-36CAD17E04E4@qut.edu.au> Message-ID: <5728DB70.1050708@nethood.org> Hi all, There is an on-going effort to classify existing "alternative network deployments", as they call them, from the GAIA working group: - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments/ These include (wireless) community networks, which could range from large urban and/or rural networks like guifi.net and freifunk.net to neighbourhood scale wireless community networks like the RedHood WiFi in Brooklyn, NY. You might also be interested in two new dedicated EU projects: - http://mazizone.eu (focusing on the design of small-scale networks around concrete pilot studies) - http://netcommons.eu (focusing on the economic, political, and legal aspects with a more theoretical approach, in close contact with big networks like guifi.net and ninux.net) In the US there is this SEED grant initiative from the Open Technology Institute with many interesting case studies: - https://www.newamerica.org/oti/community-technology-retrospective-2015-seed-grants/ And here is a long (but incomplete) list of links to both theory and practice in this area: - http://nethood.org/links.php Best, Panos. http://nethood.org/panayotis/ On 03/05/16 14:56, Marcus Foth wrote: > Hi Doug > > not sure what exactly you mean by "open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project,” but three examples come to mind: > > 1. Beautiful Trouble > http://beautifultrouble.org > > > 2. There are a whole bunch of related projects in the media architecture space, such as this interactive “speaker’s corner” project: > > http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/18/megaphone-free-speech > > We review some of these examples in this paper: > > Caldwell, G., & Foth, M. (2014, Nov 19-22). DIY Media Architecture: Open and Participatory Approaches to Community Engagement. In Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 (pp. 1-10). Aarhus, Denmark. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77903/ > > [The next MAB conference is 3 weeks away: http://mab16.org] > > > 3. With regards to "open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication,” I’m reminded of my colleague Bob Dick’s page on Dialectical processes, "in which dialectical processes (which craft agreement out of disagreement) are described, and contrasted with adversarial and consensual processes .” > > http://www.aral.com.au/resources/dialectic.html > > hope this helps > cheers, marcus > > > -- > Professor Marcus Foth > > i/Director, QUT Design Lab > School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty > Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia > m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de > > CRICOS No. 00213J > > > ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) > Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org > >> On 3 May 2016, at 2:51 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: >> >> Greetings from Seattle! >> >> I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. >> >> My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's why I'm writing to you all. >> >> If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help inform the project. >> >> Please send me your thoughts on this. >> >> Thanks!! >> >> — Doug >> >> >> Douglas Schuler >> douglas at publicsphereproject.org >> Twitter: @doug_schuler >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Public Sphere Project >> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ >> >> Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good >> http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce >> >> Creating the World Citizen Parliament >> http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament >> >> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) >> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv >> >> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) >> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ci4cg-announce mailing list >> Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org >> http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce From yuri.misnikov at gmail.com Tue May 3 22:02:38 2016 From: yuri.misnikov at gmail.com (Yuri Misnikov) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 08:02:38 +0300 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure ~~ you tell me! In-Reply-To: <8F1208E4-7ADD-4500-A0DB-E117A359E8C8@publicsphereproject.org> References: <8F1208E4-7ADD-4500-A0DB-E117A359E8C8@publicsphereproject.org> Message-ID: Hi Doug, there is a Beautiful St Petersburg movement in Russia that mobilizes citizens to improve urban environment. They claim to have some 200,000 supporters now. Very impressive. I am now looking at their case to learn more - http://xn--80accfiasjf8cghbfut2k.xn--p1ai/about and http://vk.com/peterburg_krasiv Originally it was copied from Fix My Street but has transformed eventually in something much bigger.... Best regards. Yuri 2016-05-03 7:51 GMT+03:00 Doug Schuler : > Greetings from Seattle! > > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — > on the idea of an open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication > and information infrastructure project. The paper won't be long and it > certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just > trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some > ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's > why I'm writing to you all. > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know > about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to > incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, > the suggestions you make would help inform the project. > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug > > > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > Twitter: @doug_schuler > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > * http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci > 4cg-announce* > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > > > Liberating Voices! 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DIS 2016 will be hosted by Queensland University of Technology surrounding The Cube – one of the world’s largest digital interactive and learning environments in the new $230 million Science and Engineering Centre. There are three reasons to visit Australia in 2016 with DIS being held back to back with the Vivid Light, Music & Ideas Festival 2016 (vividsydney.com) and the Media Architecture Biennale (MAB) from 1-4 June 2016 in Sydney (mab16.org). PROGRAM REVEALED 28 sessions over 3 days! http://www.dis2016.org/program/ KEYNOTES Carlo Ratti (MIT) Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU) Stelarc (Curtin University of Technology) http://www.dis2016.org/program/keynotes/ SOCIAL PROGRAM Join us and celebrate 10 years of the QUT Urban Informatics Research Lab in conjunction with the DIS 2016 After Party 8 June 2016. http://www.dis2016.org/program/social/ QUEENSLAND DESIGN POLICY SUMMIT The QUT School of Design will host the inaugural Queensland Design Policy Summit on Thursday, 9 June 2016, in conjunction with DIS’16. The summit will bring together thought leaders and policy makers across design, business, science, education, and citymaking in a dialogue to canvass the merits of resurrecting a revised, fresh, and bold Queensland Design Policy. Design is not just a noun: the object or artefact. Design these days has to be recognised as a verb: an approach, a designerly way of thinking that has to become a key driver of Australia’s National Innovation agenda and Queensland’s Advance Queensland initiative. The Queensland Design Policy Summit comprises four panel discussions focussing on Business, Science, Education, and Cities. With a view to inform policy, invited panellists will discuss the role of design in the context of digital disruption, STEM research, creative industries, education, startups and entrepreneurship, smart cities, and innovation. http://www.dis2016.org/program/summit/ EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES 8 MAY 2016 http://www.dis2016.org/register/ We look forward to seeing you at DIS’16. Please follow us on Twitter @DIS2016. You can check out who’s coming on our Facebook event page: http://bit.ly/dis16 Marcus Foth, QUT Conference Chair Wendy Ju, Stanford Stephen Viller, UQ Ronald Schroeter, QUT Technical Program Chairs -- Professor Marcus Foth i/Director, QUT Design Lab School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de CRICOS No. 00213J ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Sat May 7 14:40:58 2016 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 14:40:58 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure Part II Message-ID: Thanks to everybody that sent me their ideas! I thought I'd send out the note that is intended to clarify what I'm looking for — although it might just add more confusion... — Doug I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of basic features that people use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as well as more advanced features such as deliberation, collaboration, decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built with federated, integrated, distributed open source modules and be governed by its users and developers in some sort of open public way. It would be used without surveillance, data harvesting, censorship. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's why I'm writing to you all. If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help inform the project. Please send me your thoughts on this. Thanks!! — Doug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justingriffis at gmail.com Tue May 10 12:02:49 2016 From: justingriffis at gmail.com (Justin Smith) Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:02:49 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure Part II In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Not really sure if any of this is relevant to your effort. But, have you seen this? http://opportunity.census.gov/#connect. Would be interesting to consider ways to integrate some of these services into an open platform that allows for deliberation, argument mapping and content sharing. And Doug, we are already building it! One chunk at a time.... It think it would be cool to know what other projects are happening that implement some feature set of the ideal citizen platform, and see if they come with some type of API. This might be a way for different groups to work independently on different aspects of the platform and then link it all together. A gentleman and I are working on an argument mapper type of technology that generates a mind-map of sorts based upon websites, facebook posts, tweets, etc. It generates a "framing" of issues in social media. Hopefully, it will produce a measure of rationality and ideology in our public discourse. Perhaps, a citizen platform would include something like this but people could respond directly to the map, provide counter arguments, include links to evidence and so forth. Cheers, Justin On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Doug Schuler < douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote: > Thanks to everybody that sent me their ideas! I thought I'd send out the > note that is intended to clarify what I'm looking for — although it might > just add more confusion... — Doug > > > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — > on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative > communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure > what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of > basic features that people use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as > well as more advanced features such as deliberation, collaboration, > decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built with federated, > integrated, distributed open source modules and be governed by its users > and developers in some sort of open public way. It would be used without > surveillance, data harvesting, censorship. The paper won't be long and it > certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just > trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some > ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's > why I'm writing to you all. > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know > about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to > incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, > the suggestions you make would help inform the project. > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > -- *Justin G. Smith, PhD.* Director of WSU Extension Mason County Assistant Professor - Community and Economic Development Regional Specialist WSU Extension Mason County 303 N. 4th St. Shelton WA 98584 360-427-9670 x 690 justingriffis at wsu.edu https://mason.wsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.foth at qut.edu.au Tue May 10 16:38:22 2016 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:38:22 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure Part II In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all my esteemed colleague Prof. Jean Burgess (cc’ed) is the Director of the Digital Media Research Centre at QUT. I asked her to comment: > Thanks, Marcus! > > Yes, it sounds particularly closely related to the Issue Mapping work I have been doing and of course all the things going on more broadly in our public communication and social media analytics programs involving Axel and team as well – we are doing a lot in this space. > > See my paper here http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2015/06/03/hybrid-forum-digital-appendix/ > And here https://www.academia.edu/24960334/Mapping_sociocultural_controversies_across_digital_media_platforms_One_week_of_gamergate_on_Twitter_YouTube_and_Tumblr > And our entire Mapping Online Publics website: http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ > > Very interesting idea to build a usable open platform for tracking public debates, but the problem is if it’s also built for participation in debates, you’ll just end up attracting the kinds of people who are into open platforms for public debate, so the risk is just creating more filter bubbles. My idea is to recognise that people engage with controversies in a very mundane, everyday way and leave traces of this engagement on all kinds of platforms. So any tools I would build would be focused on trying to present the full diversity of debates back to the public, and to provide data and tools to allow interested members of the public to get a sense of the diversity of perspectives on an issue. I’m working on some prototypes to allow Tableau to be embedded in a rich media issue website, to allow for public data exploration – it’s part of my new professors’ grant project Public Understanding of Digital Media. > > I think it’s important to build on past work in these efforts to build tools. E.g., the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam has been active in mapping issue networks and providing public tools to do so for years. > > We should point them to thing that have been led out of Amsterdam and also by Bruno Latour for ages in the issue mapping space and controversy analysis area: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20150310090045/http://www.mappingcontroversies.net/ > http://www.issuemapping.net/ > https://www.issuecrawler.net/ cheers, marcus -- Professor Marcus Foth i/Director, QUT Design Lab School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de CRICOS No. 00213J ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org > On 11 May 2016, at 5:02 AM, Justin Smith wrote: > > Not really sure if any of this is relevant to your effort. > > But, have you seen this? http://opportunity.census.gov/#connect. Would be interesting to consider ways to integrate some of these services into an open platform that allows for deliberation, argument mapping and content sharing. > > And Doug, we are already building it! One chunk at a time.... It think it would be cool to know what other projects are happening that implement some feature set of the ideal citizen platform, and see if they come with some type of API. This might be a way for different groups to work independently on different aspects of the platform and then link it all together. > > A gentleman and I are working on an argument mapper type of technology that generates a mind-map of sorts based upon websites, facebook posts, tweets, etc. It generates a "framing" of issues in social media. Hopefully, it will produce a measure of rationality and ideology in our public discourse. Perhaps, a citizen platform would include something like this but people could respond directly to the map, provide counter arguments, include links to evidence and so forth. > > Cheers, > Justin > > > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: > Thanks to everybody that sent me their ideas! I thought I'd send out the note that is intended to clarify what I'm looking for — although it might just add more confusion... — Doug > > > > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of basic features that people use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as well as more advanced features such as deliberation, collaboration, decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built with federated, integrated, distributed open source modules and be governed by its users and developers in some sort of open public way. It would be used without surveillance, data harvesting, censorship. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. > > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's why I'm writing to you all. > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help inform the project. > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > > > > -- > Justin G. Smith, PhD. > Director of WSU Extension Mason County > Assistant Professor - Community and Economic Development Regional Specialist > > WSU Extension Mason County > 303 N. 4th St. Shelton WA 98584 > 360-427-9670 x 690 > justingriffis at wsu.edu > https://mason.wsu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce From justingriffis at gmail.com Wed May 11 12:38:47 2016 From: justingriffis at gmail.com (Justin Smith) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 12:38:47 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure Part II In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Marcus, Jean, Doug and Group... Wow! This work is very similar to what I'm pursuing in university extension here at Washington State University. We are currently more focused on inferring issue position based upon stated activities or perspective taking in social media (Twitter and Facebook). Currently, we have collected data on "sustainable living" in Washington State (60,000 unique tweets over 10 day period). As of now it is defined more in terms of positive engagement with "local food, farmers markets and gardening" in contrast to conventional agri-food systems, but will expand it out to other behaviors. We also have one on climate change and global warming too. https://justingriffis.cartodb.com/viz/cbe274e0-0b4f-11e6-9589-0e787de82d45/public_map However, we are also including organizational websites since they often follow a fairly common structure that resembles formal argumentation. There is something to be said for being able to evaluate rationality in discourse in contrast to ideology -- something like a public "bullshit sniffer." But it seems difficult to capture in the mundane and informal conversation. That said, I will keep reading the articles you shared, and revisit Latour - it has been a few years actually. Anyway, I'm amazed at what is going on around the world, all the incredible work among the people in this group alone is actually mind blowing. It also makes me wonder if we need a platform, in a traditional sense, or if we need some glue to pull it all together. There is actually a funding call for developing a research and data platform for social sciences and humanities http://diggingintodata.org/about/application-materials. I think it would be wonderful to see what this group could develop together. As a related (maybe not so related) product, we (or I) have developed a little alpha mobile app for place-based storytelling with the idea of enabling a form of autoethnographic citizen science. It is available for iOS and Android devices - https://gonative.io/share/rwkeq . My hope is to be able to stitch this project in with the work we are doing with CitySDK, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Of course this might completely contradict your vision Doug? Look forward to your thoughts. Best, Justin On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Marcus Foth wrote: > Dear all > > my esteemed colleague Prof. Jean Burgess (cc’ed) is the Director of the > Digital Media Research Centre at QUT. I asked her to comment: > > > > Thanks, Marcus! > > > > Yes, it sounds particularly closely related to the Issue Mapping work I > have been doing and of course all the things going on more broadly in our > public communication and social media analytics programs involving Axel and > team as well – we are doing a lot in this space. > > > > See my paper here > http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2015/06/03/hybrid-forum-digital-appendix/ > > And here > https://www.academia.edu/24960334/Mapping_sociocultural_controversies_across_digital_media_platforms_One_week_of_gamergate_on_Twitter_YouTube_and_Tumblr > > And our entire Mapping Online Publics website: > http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ > > > > Very interesting idea to build a usable open platform for tracking > public debates, but the problem is if it’s also built for participation in > debates, you’ll just end up attracting the kinds of people who are into > open platforms for public debate, so the risk is just creating more filter > bubbles. My idea is to recognise that people engage with controversies in a > very mundane, everyday way and leave traces of this engagement on all kinds > of platforms. So any tools I would build would be focused on trying to > present the full diversity of debates back to the public, and to provide > data and tools to allow interested members of the public to get a sense of > the diversity of perspectives on an issue. I’m working on some prototypes > to allow Tableau to be embedded in a rich media issue website, to allow for > public data exploration – it’s part of my new professors’ grant project > Public Understanding of Digital Media. > > > > I think it’s important to build on past work in these efforts to build > tools. E.g., the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam > has been active in mapping issue networks and providing public tools to do > so for years. > > > > We should point them to thing that have been led out of Amsterdam and > also by Bruno Latour for ages in the issue mapping space and controversy > analysis area: > > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20150310090045/http://www.mappingcontroversies.net/ > > http://www.issuemapping.net/ > > https://www.issuecrawler.net/ > > > > > cheers, marcus > > -- > Professor Marcus Foth > > i/Director, QUT Design Lab > School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty > Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia > m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de > > CRICOS No. 00213J > > > ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) > Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org > > > On 11 May 2016, at 5:02 AM, Justin Smith > wrote: > > > > Not really sure if any of this is relevant to your effort. > > > > But, have you seen this? http://opportunity.census.gov/#connect. Would > be interesting to consider ways to integrate some of these services into an > open platform that allows for deliberation, argument mapping and content > sharing. > > > > And Doug, we are already building it! One chunk at a time.... It think > it would be cool to know what other projects are happening that implement > some feature set of the ideal citizen platform, and see if they come with > some type of API. This might be a way for different groups to work > independently on different aspects of the platform and then link it all > together. > > > > A gentleman and I are working on an argument mapper type of technology > that generates a mind-map of sorts based upon websites, facebook posts, > tweets, etc. It generates a "framing" of issues in social media. Hopefully, > it will produce a measure of rationality and ideology in our public > discourse. Perhaps, a citizen platform would include something like this > but people could respond directly to the map, provide counter arguments, > include links to evidence and so forth. > > > > Cheers, > > Justin > > > > > > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Doug Schuler < > douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote: > > Thanks to everybody that sent me their ideas! I thought I'd send out the > note that is intended to clarify what I'm looking for — although it might > just add more confusion... — Doug > > > > > > > > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed > — on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative > communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure > what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of > basic features that people use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as > well as more advanced features such as deliberation, collaboration, > decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built with federated, > integrated, distributed open source modules and be governed by its users > and developers in some sort of open public way. It would be used without > surveillance, data harvesting, censorship. The paper won't be long and it > certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just > trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. > > > > > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some > ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's > why I'm writing to you all. > > > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know > about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to > incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, > the suggestions you make would help inform the project. > > > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > > > Thanks!! > > > > — Doug > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Justin G. Smith, PhD. > > Director of WSU Extension Mason County > > Assistant Professor - Community and Economic Development Regional > Specialist > > > > WSU Extension Mason County > > 303 N. 4th St. Shelton WA 98584 > > 360-427-9670 x 690 > > justingriffis at wsu.edu > > https://mason.wsu.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > -- *Justin G. Smith, PhD.* Director of WSU Extension Mason County Assistant Professor - Community and Economic Development Regional Specialist WSU Extension Mason County 303 N. 4th St. Shelton WA 98584 360-427-9670 x 690 justingriffis at wsu.edu https://mason.wsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmitry.v.sokolov at gmail.com Thu May 12 04:00:26 2016 From: dmitry.v.sokolov at gmail.com (Dmitry Sokolov) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 23:00:26 +1200 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure Part II In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5734624A.3080601@gmail.com> Hello Justin, "a mind-map of sorts based upon websites, facebook posts, tweets, etc. It generates a "framing" of issues in social media." We are doing it "manually" on a PBWorks wiki platform by building structured knowledge networks where topics are connected "vertically" in a taxonomy and "horizontally" in the network by following personal associations, like in mind. Currently, the LikeInMind knowledge network has 30,000+ nodes. Each of those nodes/Topics can be found or discovered within 20-30 seconds and contains data, images, notes, points of view and opinions of different participants on the same topic presented literally "on the same page" for visibility and findability: http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/107464335/Facebook%20Formatted%20for%20a%20Slow%20Read Unfortunately, the link on your website, below, was not working tonight. I would be grateful for learning more on your approach of organising information, how the ""framing" of issues in social media" looks like. With kind regards, Dmitry Sokolov *Advanced Knowledge Management* *Nemetics Research Institute* *Dmitry Sokolov* PhD Phys, MEng Mech, MPA Decis Mak, CertBus SmallBusMgt Mob: *+64 27 44 809 41* dmitry.v.sokolov at gmail.com View Dmitry Sokolov's profile on LinkedIn On 11/05/16 07:02, Justin Smith wrote: > Not really sure if any of this is relevant to your effort. > > But, have you seen this? http://opportunity.census.gov/#connect. Would > be interesting to consider ways to integrate some of these services > into an open platform that allows for deliberation, argument mapping > and content sharing. > > And Doug, we are already building it! One chunk at a time.... It think > it would be cool to know what other projects are happening that > implement some feature set of the ideal citizen platform, and see if > they come with some type of API. This might be a way for different > groups to work independently on different aspects of the platform and > then link it all together. > > A gentleman and I are working on an argument mapper type of technology > that generates a mind-map of sorts based upon websites, facebook > posts, tweets, etc. It generates a "framing" of issues in social > media. Hopefully, it will produce a measure of rationality and > ideology in our public discourse. Perhaps, a citizen platform would > include something like this but people could respond directly to the > map, provide counter arguments, include links to evidence and so forth. > > Cheers, > Justin > > > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Doug Schuler > > wrote: > > Thanks to everybody that sent me their ideas! I thought I'd send > out the note that is intended to clarify what I'm looking for — > although it might just add more confusion... — Doug > > > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or > op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led > public alternative communication and information infrastructure > project. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I’m envisioning > something that supports a variety of basic features that people > use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as well as more > advanced features such as deliberation, collaboration, > decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built with > federated, integrated, distributed open source modules and be > governed by its users and developers in some sort of open public > way. It would be used without surveillance, data harvesting, > censorship. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be > authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to > help surface the idea and get feedback. > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest > some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving > forward. That's why I'm writing to you all. > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to > know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably > won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, > ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help > inform the project. > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce > > > > > -- > *Justin G. Smith, PhD.* > Director of WSU Extension Mason County > Assistant Professor - Community and Economic Development Regional > Specialist > > WSU Extension Mason County > 303 N. 4th St. Shelton WA 98584 > 360-427-9670 x 690 > justingriffis at wsu.edu > https://mason.wsu.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ci4cg-announce mailing list > Ci4cg-announce at scn9.scn.org > http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More specifically, the workshop aims to explore the following questions: How do the designer/artist create and maintain publics? How do we accommodate differences in these agonistic spaces? What is the role of the designer/artist in these contexts? How can we understand the tension between artistic control in speculative design and empowerment in participatory design? We invite researchers, designers, activists, artists, who in their work are exploring utopian, speculative, and critical design projects as well as designing for and with social movements, alternative societies and relational economies. The specific themes and topics we are interested to revisit and discuss in this workshop are: • Agonistic public spaces versus consensual decision-making • Role of the author/designer/creator/artist in speculative and critical design in relation to participatory design • Exclusion and inclusion in the design practice • Norms in speculative participatory design practices • Institutional conditions for the development and growth of speculative and critical design within a participatory design practice Workshop Participation and Key Dates Participants will be selected to participate in the workshop based on their submitted position-papers. The submission should be between 1,000 to 2,000 words long, and include an image or illustration of a design work or design process. Submission should follow the ACM ICPS format (http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/). • Position paper deadline: June 13, 2016 • Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Extended papers will be considered for a special issue in Design Issues. Organizers Karin Hansson, Stockholm University Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Digital Media Program Tessy Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University Silvia Lindtner, School of Information, University of Michigan Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University Somya Joshi, Stockholm University For submissions and further information contact: ting at performingthecommon.se -- Dr. Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Deputy Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Postgraduate Studies Coordinator, Interactive & Visual Design Senior Lecturer, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology -- e: h.choi at qut.edu.au -- w: www.nicemustard.com -- p: +617 3138 7657 -- m: +61 433 167 151 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: