Civic Data + Civic Participation

Le Dantec, Christopher A.

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Civic Data + Civic Participation

dc.contributor.author	Le Dantec, Christopher A.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Digital Media Program
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-22T20:49:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-22T20:49:37Z
dc.date.issued	2015-09-15
dc.description	Presented on September 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM in the TSRB Auditorium.	en_US
dc.description	Christopher A. Le Dantec is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. He studies community participation and community design practice. His research touches a number of different domains, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Social Computing, Urban Informatics, Science and Technology Studies, Participatory Design, Design Research.
dc.description	Runtime: 53:35 minutes
dc.description.abstract	Smart cities and digital democracy have begun to converge and create opportunities to enact new civic imaginaries. Much of the momentum behind these efforts derives from computing’s promise of improved efficiency derived from the application of data to familiar problems. However, data are social, whether through the act of collecting them, to marshaling them for argument and advocacy, or by being acted on by them. Data-based civic participation, then, is about attending to the ways data do social work for us, how our stories become data, and how data tell stories. One way in which I am currently exploring these issues is through a project that enlists cyclists in Atlanta to record their rides and share that data with the City. These traces inform the creation of public polity and create an opportunity to participate in new forms of civic labor and advocacy. This project is one of several I am currently working on to explore the data ecosystems that emerge at the intersection of digital democracy and smart cities.	en_US
dc.embargo.terms	null	en_US
dc.format.extent	53:35 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54051
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LMC Distinguished Speaker Series
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LMC Distinguished Speaker Series	en_US
dc.subject	Design research	en_US
dc.subject	Smart cities	en_US
dc.subject	Urban informatics	en_US
dc.title	Civic Data + Civic Participation	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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local.contributor.author	Le Dantec, Christopher A.
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Literature, Media, and Communication
local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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