[Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure ~~ you tell me!

[Marcus Foth]

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


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> On 3 May 2016, at 2:51 PM, Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Please send me your thoughts on this.
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> Thanks!!
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> — Doug
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> Douglas Schuler
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