From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Tue May 9 10:55:35 2017 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 10:55:35 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Fwd: [PDworld] Communities & Technologies 2017, Troyes, France - Program announced + Early-bird registration until May 11 In-Reply-To: <3E68663B-E357-4AEB-9D8B-B43EF0C39C14@uni-siegen.de> References: <3E68663B-E357-4AEB-9D8B-B43EF0C39C14@uni-siegen.de> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Korn, Matthias Date: Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM Subject: [PDworld] Communities & Technologies 2017, Troyes, France - Program announced + Early-bird registration until May 11 To: "CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG" , "announcements.eu.nordichi at maillist.au.dk" < announcements.eu.nordichi at maillist.au.dk>, pdworld /Listserv < pdworld at listserv.uni-siegen.de>, eusset /Listserv < eusset at listserv.uni-siegen.de>, "CSCW-ALL at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" < CSCW-ALL at jiscmail.ac.uk>, "announcements at ubicomp.org" < announcements at ubicomp.org>, "TANGIBLE-INTERACTION at jiscmail.ac.uk" < TANGIBLE-INTERACTION at jiscmail.ac.uk>, "DRS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK" < DRS at jiscmail.ac.uk>, "fgcscw at lists.lrz.de" , " fb-mci at gi-ev.de" , "wi at lists.kit.edu" , " cscw-sig at jiscmail.ac.uk" , " announcement.nordes at maillist.au.dk" C&T 2017 – Technology for the Common Good 26-30 June 2017, Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France http://comtech.community/ == NEWS * Keynote and accepted papers (long, short, and case studies) announced * Early-bird registration extended to May 11 * Doctoral consortium applications due June 2 * Several workshops still have open deadlines == ABOUT C&T The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. C&T 2017 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, informatics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. For the 2017 round of C&T, we welcome contributions that particularly pay attention on technology that can be deployed for the common good. The conference program includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers and case studies, as well as pre-conference workshops, a doctoral consortium, and invited keynotes. We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting conference in Troyes! Myriam Lewkowicz, Markus Rohde Conference Chairs chairs at comtech.community == KEYNOTE Three Challenges for Politics and Technology Development: Organizational Complexity, Virtuality, and Design Values Lance Bennett & Alan Borning The democratic process is in chaos in many nations. What role has technology played in this to date, and what are realistic goals for the role of technology in the future? How can we best design and develop technologies to support democratic process with participation from community members? How can we learn from deployments and help communities adapt to actual uses and results? These elements of the talk will be illustrated with examples from different community projects we have done together, including a crowd sourced voter deliberation platform, a virtual assembly site for Occupy Wall Street, and a planned international thought network to address related problems of economy, environment, and democracy. Lance Bennett Professor of Political Science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication University of Washington, Seattle, USA Director, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement http://www.engagedcitizen.org http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/bennett.html Alan Borning Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/borning/students == ACCEPTED PAPERS (long, short, and case studies) Jennifer Marlow, Jason Wiese and Daniel Avrahami. Exploring the Effects of Audience Visibility on Presenters and Attendees in Online Educational Presentations Anna De Liddo, Brian Plüss and Paul Wilson. A Novel Method to Gauge Audience Engagement with Televised Election Debates through Instant, Nuanced Feedback Elicitation Janis Meissner and Geraldine Fitzpatrick. Urban Knitting: Rethinking Yarn and Technology for Practices of Urban Participation and Hybrid Crafting Susanne Bødker, Peter Lyle and Joanna Saad-Sulonen. Untangling the Mess of Technological Artifacts: Investigating Community Artifact Ecologies Manuel Portela and Lucia Paz Errandonea. The role of Participatory Social Mapping in the struggle of the territory and the right to the city: A case study in Buenos Aires Airi Lampinen, Donald McMillan, Barry Brown, Zarah Faraj, Deha Nemutlu Cambazoglu and Christian Virtala. Friendly but not Friends: Designing for Spaces Between Friendship and Unfamiliarity Dan Richardson, Clara Crivellaro, Ahmed Kharrufa, Kyle Montague and Patrick Olivier. Exploring Public Places as Infrastructures for Civic M-Learning Colin Dodds, Ahmed Kharrufa, Anne Preston, Catherine Preston and Patrick Olivier. Remix Portal: Connecting Classrooms with Local Music Communities David Hendry, Norah Abokhodair, Rose Paquet Kinsley and Jill Palzkill Woelfer. Homeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members’ Perceptions of the Job Co-op Osama Mansour and Nasrine Olson. Interpersonal Influence in Viral Social Media – A Study of Refugee Stories on Virality Lars Rune Christensen and Thomas Hildebrandt. Modelling Cooperative Work at a Medical Department Luke Hespanhol. More than Smart, Beyond Resilient: Networking Communities for Antifragile Cities Sara Vannini, David Nemer and Isabella Rega. Integrating mobile technologies to achieve community development goals: the case of telecenters in Brazil Lisa Nathan, Michelle Kaczmarek, Maggie Castor, Shannon Cheng and Raquel Mann. Unsettling Research Practice Annika Wolff, Matthew Barker and Marian Petre. Creating a Datascape: a game to support communities in using open data Marly Samuel, Jennyfer Taylor, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus and Marko Nieminen. Improving the flow of livelihood information among unemployed youth in an informal settlement of Windhoek, Namibia Ann Light, Alison Powell and Irina Shklovski. Design for Existential Crisis in the Anthropocene Age Daniel Auferbauer and Hilda Tellioglu. Centralized Crowdsourcing in Disaster Management: Findings and Implications Reem Talhouk, Tom Bartindale, Kyle Montague, Sandra Mesmar, Chaza Akik, Ali Ghassani, Martine Najem, Hala Ghattas, Patrick Olivier and Madeline Balaam. Implications of Synchronous IVR Radio on Syrian Refugee Health and Community Dynamics Johanna Ylipulli, Anna Luusua and Timo Ojala. Magic as a Creative Metaphor in Technology Design Katja Neureiter, Johannes Vollmer, Rebecca Luisa Gerwert Vaz de Carvalho and Manfred Tscheligi. Starting up an E-Mentoring Relationship. A User Study. Di Lu, Rosta Farzan and Claudia López. To Go or not to Go! What Influences Newcomers of Hybrid Communities to Participate Offline Aditya Johri and Seungwon Yang. Scaffolded Help for Informal Learning: How Experts Support Newcomers’ Productive Participation in an Online Community Angela Di Fiore, Francesco Ceschel, Leysan Nurgalieva, Maurizio Marchese and Fabio Casati. Design Considerations to Support Nursing Homes’ Communities Stina Nylander and Jakob Tholander. Community-based Innovation among elite orienteers Robb Mitchell and Thomas Olsson. Utilizing Barriers for Bridging Communities: Three Inspirational Design Patterns for Increasing Collocated Social Interaction Claudia Silva, Valentina Nisi and Joseph D. Straubhaar. Share yourself first: exploring strategies for the creation of locative content for and by low-literacy communities Oliver Blunk and Michael Prilla. Developing Communities of Practice in Public Administrations: Analysis and Design Approaches Karl Baumann, Benjamin Stokes, François Bar and Ben Caldwell. Infrastructures of the Imagination: Community Design for Speculative Urban Technologies Becky Michelson, Gabriel Mugar, Catherine D’Ignazio and Eric Gordon. Boston Civic Media: A Network for Solving Wicked Problems Cristhian Parra, Christelle Rohaut, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Valerie Issarny and James Holston. Expanding the Design Space of ICT for Participatory Budgeting Alice V. Brown and Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi. Designing with and for Care: The Role of Trusted Others in Nurturing Posttraumatic Growth Gareth Davies and Mark Gaved. Seeking togetherness: moving toward a comparative evaluation framework in an interdisciplinary DIY networking project Steve Ricken, Louise Barkhuus and Quentin Jones. Going Online to Meet Offline: Organizational Practices of Social Activities Through Meetup Youyang Hou and Cliff Lampe. Sustainable Hacking: Characteristics of the Design and Adoption of Civic Hacking Projects Marcus Foth. Lessons from Urban Guerrilla Placemaking for Smart City Commons == DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference programme, on Monday, June 26, 2017. The Doctoral Consortium (DC) offers research students a special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research plans with peers and established senior researchers. We especially welcome contributions which are related to the overall C&T conference theme, which is devoted to technology that can be deployed for the common good. This encompasses questions and approaches which are concerned with securing healthy and diverse ways of societal development. However, all contributions falling in the scope of the C&T conference are welcome. Research students wishing to attend the doctoral consortium should submit up to 4 pages, using the ACM templates, addressing the following: * Introduction setting up your research area and specific research question(s)/goals(s) (including key related work); * Overall research approach, methodology, and expected contributions; * Work in progress (including findings to date and next steps); * Questions and issues for discussion, and what you hope to gain from attending the DC; * Short bio. Please send proposals directly to the Doctoral Consortium Chairs by June 2: dc at comtech.community Yvonne Dittrich, Claudia Müller Doctoral Consortium Chairs dc at comtech.community == WORKSHOPS Workshops and Doctoral Consortium will take place at the University on Monday and Tuesday (26th and 27th of June). Workshops have varying requirements for participation and deadlines for submissions. Please check the individual workshop websites at http://comtech.community/ programme_workshops/ Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Lars Rune Christensen Workshop Chairs workshops at comtech.community == Monday, 26th of June * Doctoral Consortium * WS 2: Ethics for the ‘Common Good’: Actionable Guidelines for Community-based Design Research * WS 4: Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World * WS 5: Collaborative Economies: From Sharing to Caring * WS 6: Digital Cities 10: Towards a Localised Socio-Technical Understanding of the ‘Real’ Smart City * WS 12: Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis == Tuesday, 27th of June * WS 1: 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication for Education and the Common Good * WS 3: Embracing Diversity with Help of Technology and Participatory Design (EDTPD 2017) * WS 7: Designing Participation for the Digital Fringe * WS 8: Participatory Design, Beyond the Local * WS 9: Solutions for Economics, Environment and Democracy (SEED) * WS 10: Understanding and Supporting Emergent and Temporary Collaboration across and beyond Community and Organizational Boundaries * WS 11: Infrastructuring Smartness and/or Enhancing Communities? 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URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Fri May 12 18:21:57 2017 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 18:21:57 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] ~ UPDATE ~ Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World Workshop Message-ID: *Please distribute to interested people and lists* *Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World * *~~~ UPDATE ~~~~~* *Although the deadline for position papers (June 1, 2017) has not changed, we want to encourage people who would like to attend the workshop to submit their position papers (to douglas at publicsphereproject.org ) as soon as they can. This will help with both workshop and conference planning. If you're interested in attending the workshop but would rather not write a position paper please let us know via email at your earliest opportunity. Thanks!* Call for Workshop Participation / Communities and Technologies / commtech.community Troyes, France June 26, 2017 (the first day of the five-day conference, June 26-30) *The future of our shared civic intelligence depends on how well we use our existing resources to challenge dangerous and disempowering shifts, and improve the capacity of citizens to use information, form voluntary networks of action and coordinate responses that reinvigorate democratic principles.* Grazia Concilio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Anna de Liddo, Open University, UK, Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College, USA, Justin Smith, Washington State University, USA This workshop is a follow-on to the Collective Intelligence for the Common Good workshop that we convened at C&T 2015 in Limerick, Ireland. That workshop resulted in a special section in the AI & Society journal. We also plan to find a suitable book or special issue/section of a journal to publish the work of this workshop. More information can (soon) be found at ci4cg.org/. *Motivation * Efforts to secure the common good are facing significant challenges worldwide. Nationalistic, anti-scientific, anti-intellectual, and anti-democratic values are gaining popularity in political discourse. Promises of international cooperation and democratic principles of inclusion, rational (public) discourse, and collective problem-solving are increasingly threatened. Will the people of the world have adequate civic intelligence* to resist these threats and learn to manage its affairs and its ecosystems more prudently? Coordinated resistance in the U.S. and elsewhere suggest that civic intelligence is alive. It is demonstrated through rallies and marches, citizen mobilization, dialogue, independent media, academic research and reporting, fact checking, challenges to elected officials, and much more. Yet more civic intelligence will be necessary in the coming days, months and years as citizens, civil society and others attempt to challenge and reverse these dangerous trends. *Workshop Agenda* In this workshop we will explicitly examine technologies having the potential to enable civic intelligence at different scales, from the local to the global, approaching them as components of the wider ecosystem of common goods that we as practitioners and citizens can help create. While technology can't solve these issues by itself, it can and should play a vital role in supporting the activation and mobilization of civic intelligence worldwide. However, it needs to focus on the facilitation of collective problem-solving—not just an app for this or an app for that. This means presenting information that reveals the systemic relationships of the social and ecological life of our planet, trends in nature (such as climate change) and the activities of humans (deforestation, urbanization, political freedom, migration, etc.). It also means opening access to news, data, and the ability and willingness to communicate complexity to improve people's scientific, collaborative, and critical reasoning skills. Such an endeavor will likely force each one of us to consider our roles as citizens of the planet. At the same time we also need to consider the myriad ways that technological systems can degrade or defeat civic intelligence and consider how to overcome these challenges as well. Artificial intelligence, for example, could be used as a tool to further distance people from control of their lives. This also includes trends in collective problem-solving that seek overly simplistic solutions to inherently complex situations. Finally we also question normative views of dominant consumer culture that suggest that peoples' lives ought to be centered on entertainment, personal gratification, convenience, or consumerism. *Workshop Goals* >From the vantage point of a world in need of new tools and paradigms we envision several related aims. The first is helping to understand the social (information and communication) landscape that we inhabit. Second, is the sharing of ideas, proposals, issues, and other work that the workshop participants are undertaking or hypothesizing. Third, is the development of common frameworks and other integrative approaches that tie our viewpoints and seemingly disparate efforts into a more coherent ensemble. And, finally, identification of specific coordinated action items that we can implement to help us meet our goals, and to engage fruitfully with other people and institutions that are part of this struggle for civic intelligence. We hope that these efforts will contribute to the building of a robust network that works across disciplinary and geographic boundaries to improve the capacity of citizen everywhere to successfully address problems of mutual concern. *Participation* Researchers and scientists, policy makers, citizens, professionals, mediators, public officials, ICT specialists, journalists, artists, policy consultants, and anybody having a strong civic orientation and perspective are welcome! Participants are encouraged to submit a brief position paper that addresses the following points: (1) Why they're interested in the topic; (2) What they'd like to get out of the workshop; (3) What they have to contribute to the workshop — and in the longer run; and (4) List 3-5 goals that they'd like to work towards that would help build the civic intelligence socio-technological research and action program. We will be working with these points to help develop collective documents that address the current and desired future states. Please submit your position paper (doc or pdf) via email to douglas at publicsphereproject.org by June 1, 2017. Questions or comments in relation to this workshop can also be sent to that address. * Civic intelligence is the ability of groups of people to perceive, communicate and act to address shared challenges both efficiently and equitably. It is holistic — it includes a constellation of capabilities including compassion, creativity, and courage. It highlights the importance of building capacity for people to deal with problems, large and small. Moreover, civic intelligence varies from place to place, situation to situation and it changes over time—sometimes very rapidly, and sometimes for the worse. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Thu May 18 21:47:09 2017 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 21:47:09 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Imagining a New Public Information and Communication Infrastructure Message-ID: The idea of a big open-source collaboration for a problem-solving not-for-profit global platform seems to becoming more popular. I wouldn't call it a juggernaut just yet. I wanted to mention my recent article for the Computers and Society Newsletter: "Imagining a New Public Information and Communication Infrastructure which is available at http://www.sigcas.org/newsletter/volume-47-issue-1/6.pdf for a few weeks at least (and on the public sphere project site at http://publicsphereproject.org/sites/default/files/public-infrastructure.preprint.pdf ). Incidentally a reporter at vice.com did a write-up ( https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-plea-for-multispace-the-diy-civic-internet-that-will-never-exist) of the article. It was somewhat encouraging while mentioning the technical naiveté of the author a couple of times (a "rosy treatise"). In my note back to him I mentioned that I believe the technical challenges are miniscule when stacked up against the social challenges. The way I'd propose starting something like this from the ground up would be to start developing a "pattern language" that depicts the broad — and evolving —"rules" that would help guide us. These would be incrementally developed by the researchers / developers / practitioners and would change over time to reflect current and expected circumstances. This process bears some resemblance to the Request for Comments (RFC) and the Portland Pattern Repository (which led to Wikis, Wikipedia, etc.) approaches that was used in the development of the Internet. I'd suggest a number of Public Infrastructure Development Pattern Categories under which the pattens would fit. Here's the draft list so far: Purpose Principles Community Architecture Governance Development Functionality and Services Looks and Feels Policy Outreach / Communication Users and Use Cases Projects & Experiments Long View, Strategy, and Planning And the patterns within the categories could be in various states: in development / comments requested / accepted / accepted provisionally / tabled / others? I'm curious whether people think this approach sounds useful or practical. Thanks! — Doug PS. I also looked into this via another perspective in Creating the World Citizen Parliament, http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: