Paper Info
Title
Talking it further: from feelings and memories to civic discussions in and about places.
Abstract
Civic engagement systems to date frequently focus on purely rational aspects of deliberation void of emotions. In order to empower youth in a largely immigrant and lower-income neighborhood, we designed a location-based storytelling and story experiencing system for web-enabled mobile phones. The system is based on a novel concept of pervasive play where stories emerge and develop on several dimensions -- most notably for our design a geographical one. This system functions as a research instrument in this paper. Through a qualitative analysis of the comments made through the system, we find (1) memories, feelings, and attitudes to be prime means of expression for youth, (2) the expression of such personal emotions leading to civic discussions, and (3) such discussions expanding over geographic areas in the neighborhood. Consequently, we argue for an approach to locative civic engagement systems that takes a vantage point in youth's emotions rather than a very rational and dry approach to deliberation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2399016.2399046
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
location-based storytelling,civic discussion,lower-income neighborhood,novel concept,geographic area,rational aspect,civic engagement system,system function,deliberation void,dry approach,emotions,information systems,human computer interaction
Deliberation,Information system,Storytelling,Computer science,Civic engagement,Immigration,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Feeling,Locative case
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.63
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Korn1956.75
Jon Back2225.64