From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action

Ian G. Johnson; John Vines; Dalya Al-Shahrabi

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From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action

Ian G. Johnson, John Vines, Dalya Al-Shahrabi

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20): April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376464
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020

Keywords

civic participation
civic technology
civil society
deliberation
digital civics
sociodigital systems

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From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action. / Johnson, Ian G.; Vines, John; Al-Shahrabi, Dalya.
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20): April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. p. 1-14 3376464.

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