Pre-publication announcement: From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT Press 2011)
Comments (0) Foth, M., Forlano, L., Gibbs, M., & Satchell, C. (Eds.) (2011, forthcoming). From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and social networking systems have been termed ‘Web 2.0’ to highlight an arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible. Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take advantage of device-specific features such as sensors, location and context awareness. This international volume of book chapters will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It brings together an international group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis, twitter, blogging, virtual worlds, shared displays and urban sceens, and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship.
Editors
Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Laura Forlano, Cornell University, USA
Martin Gibbs, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Section 1: Theories of Engagement
Foreword
Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University, USA
The Ideas and Ideals in Urban Media Theory
Martin de Waal, University of Groningen, NL
The Moral Economy of Social Media
Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA, & Christine Satchell, QUT, Australia
The Protocological Surround: Reconceptualising Radio and Architecture in the Wireless City
Gillian Fuller, & Ross Harley, University of NSW, Australia
Mobile Media and the Strategies of Urban Citizenship: Discipline, Responsibilisation, Politicisation
Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney, Australia
Section 2: Civic Engagement
Foreword
Yvonne Rogers, Open University, UK
Food in the City & Beyond: Desining Ubiquitous Technologies for Sustainable Food Culture
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, QUT, & Eli Blevis, Indiana University, USA
Building Digital Participation Hives toward a Local Public Sphere
Fiorella de Cindio, & Cristian Peraboni, University of Milano, Italy
Between Experience, Affect, and Information: Experimental Urban Interfaces in the Climate Change Debate
Jonas Fritsch, & Martin Brynskov, Aarhus University, Denmark
More than Friends: Social and Mobile Media for Activist Organizations
Tad Hirsch, Intel People and Practices Research, USA
Bjorn Nansen, Jon Pearce, & Wally Smith, The University of Melbourne, Australia
The Rise of the Expert Amateur: Citizen Science and Micro-Volunteerism
Eric Paulos, Sunyoung Kim, Stacey Kuznetsov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Section 3: Creative Engagement
Foreword
Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Street Haunting: Sounding the Invisible City
Sarah Barns, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Family Worlds: Technological Engagement for Families Negotiating Urban Traffic
Hilary Davis, Peter Francis, Bjorn Nansen, & Frank Vetere, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Urban Media: New Complexities, New Possibilities — A Manifesto
Christopher Kirwan, & Sven Travis, Parsons — The New School for Design, USA
Bjørnetjeneste: Using the City as a Backdrop for Location-Based Interactive Narratives
Jeni Paay, & Jesper Kjeldskov, Aalborg University, Denmark
Section 4: Technologies of Engagement
Foreword
Atau Tanaka, Newcastle University, UK
Sensing, Projecting and Interpreting Digital Identity through Bluetooth: From Anonymous Encounters to Social Engagement
Ava Fatah gen. Schieck 1, Freya Palmer 2, Alan Penn 1, & Eamonn O’Neill 2
1 University College London, UK, 2 University of Bath, UK
Germaine Halegoua, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Engaging Citizens and Community with the UBI-Hotspots
Timo Ojala, Timo, & Hannu Kukka, University of Oulu, Finland
Crowdsensing in the Web: Analyzing the Citizen Experience in the Urban Space
Francisco C. Pereira, Andrea Vaccari, Fabien Giardin, Carnaven Chiu, & Carlo Ratti, Senseable City Lab, MIT, USA
Laurianne Sitbon, Peter Bruza, Renato Iannella, & Sarath Indrakanti, National ICT Australia
Section 5: Design Engagement
Foreword
Mark Blythe, University of York, UK
A Streetscape Portal
Michael Arnold, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Non-Anthropocentrism and the Non-Human in Design: Possibilities for Designing New Forms of Engagement with and through Technology
Carl DiSalvo, & Jonathan Lukens, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Laura Forlano, Cornell University, USA
Dramatic Character Development Personas to Tailor Apartment Designs for Different Residential Lifestyles
Marcus Foth, Christine Satchell, Greg Hearn, & Danielle Shelton, QUT, Australia
Epilogue
Judith Donath, MIT, USA
