PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos; Rob Comber; Karim Ladha; Nick Taylor; Paul Dunphy; Patrick McCorry; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/2598510.2598523

PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Karim Ladha, Nick Taylor, Paul Dunphy, Patrick McCorry, Patrick Olivier

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Abstract

Online and digital technologies support and extend the action repertoires of localized social movements. In this paper we examine the ways by which digital technologies can support "on-the-ground" activist communities in the development of social movements. After identifying some of the challenges of deploying conventional voting and consultation technologies for activism, we examine situated political action in local communities through the design and deployment of a low-cost community voting prototype, PosterVote. We deploy PosterVote in two case studies with two local community organizations identifying the features that supported or hindered grassroots democratic practices. Through interviews with these communities, we explore the design of situated voting systems to support participation within an ecology of social action.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems
Place of Publication	New York, New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	795–804
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450329026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598523
Publication status	Published - Jun 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 21 Jun 2014 → 25 Jun 2014

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Conference	2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	21/06/14 → 25/06/14

Keywords

Democracy
activism
participation
e-voting

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Vlachokyriakos, V, Comber, R, Ladha, K, Taylor, N, Dunphy, P, McCorry, P & Olivier, P 2014, PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism. in DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems. ACM, New York, New York, pp. 795–804, 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 21/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598523

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