
Digital Participation through Social Living Labs
Valuing Local Knowledge, Enhancing Engagement
Description
Key Features
- Highlights that high speed internet is necessary that high speed internet access is necessary but not sufficient to resolve digital divides and foster social inclusion;
- Brings together international, empirically grounded case studies to identify digital needs, issues and practices of different communities, and contextualises these with expert comment;
- Presents contributions from multiple disciplines, with most chapters incorporating more than one disciplinary background;
- Gives insight on the place of the digital in contemporary society;
- Illustrates the innovative potential of social living labs to foster digital learning and participation in a variety of community contexts.
Readership
Postgraduate students and researchers in library and information science, digital media studies, community development/community informatics, and education; final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in library and information science and allied disciplines; think tanks, policy makers, government and non governmental organisations, and industry involved with information, such as, for example, open government initiatives and digital participation initiatives
Table of Contents
1. Social Living Labs for Digital Participation and Connected Learning
2. Cultivating (Digital) Capacities: A Role for Social Living Labs?
3. Digital Participation Through Artistic Intervention
4. Going Digital: Integrating Digital Technologies in Local Community Initiatives
5. The School as a Living Lab < The Case of Kaospilot
6. Mixhaus: Dissolving Boundaries With a Community Makerspace
7. Empowerment Through Making: Lessons for Sustaining and Scaling Community Practices
8. Mapping a Connected Learning Ecology to Foster Digital Participation in Regional Communities
9. Connecting Digital Participation and Informal Language Education: Home Tutors and Migrants in an Australian Regional Community
10. Pittsworth Stories: Developing a Social Living Lab for Digital Participation in a Rural Australian Community
11. Urban Communities as Locations for Health, Media Literacy and Civic Voice
12. Including the Rural Excluded: Digital Technology and Diverse Community Participation
13. Digital Storytelling for Community Participation: The Storyelling Social Living Lab
14. From the Inside: An Interview With the ‘Storyelling.’ Group
15. Vancouver Youthspaces: A Political Economy of Digital Learning Communities
16. Policy Experiments and the Digital Divide: Understanding the Context of Internet Adoption in Remote Aboriginal Communities
17. Effective Digital Participation: Differences in Rural and Urban Areas and Ways Forward
18. Gateways to Digital Participation: The Rhetorical Function of Local Government Websites
Product details
- No. of pages: 382
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2017
- Published: August 14, 2017
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780081020609
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081020593
About the Editors
Michael Dezuanni
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Marcus Foth
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Kerry Mallan
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Hilary Hughes
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