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The culture question in participatory design
Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts - Volume 2, 2014As efforts to promote Participatory Design (PD) outside of the Nordic region have grown, how to deal with culture has been perceived as an increasingly pressing issue. This paper explicates the cultural problems PD has had and presents alternative approaches to dealing with them.Anthropology is a discipline that has largely been organized through ...
David Hakken, Paula Maté
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YouTube as a participatory culture
New Directions for Youth Development, 2010AbstractThere is an explosion of youth subscriptions to original content‐media‐sharing Web sites such as YouTube. These Web sites combine media production and distribution with social networking features, making them an ideal place to create, connect, collaborate, and circulate.
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Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures
2019Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to sketch the boundary line between today’s amateur media practice and the cannons of professional media and film practice. Identifying various feasible interpretative frameworks, from historical to anthropological perspectives, it helps develop a critical language able to cope with amateur and new media’s ...
Aasman, Susan, Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria
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Twitch and Participatory Cultures
2020Why watch someone else play videogames when you could just play them yourself? This chapter answers this common question while using the popular streaming platform Twitch.tv to debate the notion that videogames are antisocial activities and that watching gameplay is an inactive form of media consumption.
Ashley M.L. Brown, Lis Moberly
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Participatory Culture and Democratic Culture
2018This chapter examines how participatory culture in postwar Japan generates what the author terms “democratic culture,” a grassroots phenomenon shaped by diverse small groups or circles that foster creative expression, collective reflection, and social action. It explores how these circles—ranging from workplace clubs to literary salons—encourage public
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Participatory budgeting for culture: handing power to communities?
2019The concept of participatory budgeting was developed as a means of bypassing corrupt local elites and creating better governance in developing countries. Applied in the global north, it attempts to give power back to communities to set spending priorities within their neighbourhoods. This chapter examines two attempts at participatory budgeting for the
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The quantified patient: a patient participatory culture
Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2014The Quantified Self Movement, which aims to improve various aspects of life and health through recording and reviewing daily activities and biometrics, is a new and upcoming practice of self monitoring that holds much promise. Now, the most underutilized resource in ambulatory health care, the patient, can participate like never before, and the patient'
Appelboom, Geoff +4 more
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Participatory Governance and Cultural Development
2022This book analyses the impact of participatory governance on cultural development, explaining why cultural participatory practices can lead either to positive sustainable effects or to unexpected and controversial ones. It focuses on four projects realized in the two European Capitals of Culture of 2013 – Marseille-Provence (France) and Košice ...
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Cultural Perspectives in Participatory Ergonomics
Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, 1987This paper examines the generalizability of participatory ergonomics to different cultures. Studies using participatory strategies to introduce ergonomic solutions are reviewed across three distinct cultures. The results lead us to believe that these effects are sufficiently robust and not culture or method bound. Four lessons can be learned from these
Andrew S. Imada, Michelle M. Robertson
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Participatory Design of the Participatory Culture: Students’ Projections of e-Learning 2.0
2009The participatory culture of Web 2.0 and the implicit empowerment of the learners have not been yet associated with participatory design projects that involve learners in the design and development of the new mediating tools. In this paper, we examine students’ projections of Web 2.0 in higher education. Ninety seven undergraduate students participated
George Palaigeorgiou +2 more
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