online and offline spaces for democracy
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Online and Offline Spaces for Democracy
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (@EllaTasm)
https://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith
#edfringe2016 #edskeptics
Edinburgh Skeptics on the Fringe, August 2016
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Payal Arora (2014)
The Leisure Commons
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Why me?
2001 -2011: Working on top-down eParticipation pilots.
2011 -2015: Exploring citizen-led participation (on and offline);
looking at the relationship between contexts (spaces) and activities.
https://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith@EllaTasm
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Use of both online and offline spaces influenced by:
• boundaries• inhabitants• access• ownership• cost
How to behave in this context?
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Who is the audience online?
Erving Goffman (1959)The presentation of self in everyday life
• Front region: performance.• Back region: preparation and
relaxing with the team.
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The Iceberg of participation
Hidden (non-public) worksupports public outputs.
Most work (and discussion) is organisation and learning,
not events or public deliberation.
What do we do when we do democracy?
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Andrea Cornwall (2002)
Invited spaces: top-downCreated spaces: bottom-up
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Non-public social media
• Community/ collaboration between diverse people
• Friendly consensual discussions (Facebook pages of nice people)
• Spiral of Silence (Noelle-Neumann, 1984)
• Filter Bubbles (Parisier, 2012)
• Hidden manifestos
Collaboration vs isolation
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David Altheide (2004)
Media logic
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Integrated spaces
Blended spaces (Benyon, 2014)Microsoft’s Realtime Crowd InsightsTelepresence (Kane, 2014)
Picturesthanks toAlex Macintosh for PokémonVan Gogh Museum for woodcuts
We use spaces together, online or offline.
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Kane: telepresence; cognitive tunnelling
Holyrood School (Glasgow)and The Scottish Parliament
with Frank McAveety MSP
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Thinking back to public parks..
Need to work with commercial giants like Facebook, Google, Twitter, to create good spaces for democracy.
Thanks. Questions.
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (@EllaTasm) https://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith
Edinburgh Skeptics on the Fringe, August 2016
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