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Title

Participatory research and creative engagement with ICTs

Author(s)

Tacchi, Jo Ann;  Watkins, Jerry

Abstract

This paper reports preliminary findings from the Finding a Voice project, an ethnographic investigation into the development and consequences of participatory content creation programs in underserved communities in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The project explores how information and communication technology can be used to enable both civic and cultural participation, and creative engagement within such communities. The research is informed by Ethnographic Action Research and Participatory Design methodologies, as well as observation of local communicative ecologies.

Publication type

Conference paper

Source

Proceedings of the Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research held at the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 06 November 2007

Publication year

2007

Keyword(s)

Communicative ecologies;  Ethnographic action research;  Participatory content creation;  Participatory research

Publisher

ACM Press

Publisher URL

http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/sensys07/index.php?title=Accepted_Papers_and_Workshop_Agenda

Copyright

Copyright © 2007 ACM Press. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research held at the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 06 November 2007.

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