Research Catalog

Title

From social butterfly to engaged citizen : urban informatics, social media, ubiquitous computing, and mobile technology to support citizen engagement / edited by Marcus Foth ... [et al.] ; epilogue by Judith Donath.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Foth, Marcus

Description

xvii, 521 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific features as sensors and GPS. From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen examines how this increasingly open, collaborative, and personalizable technology is shaping not just our social interactions but new kinds of civic engagement with cities, communities, and spaces. It offers analyses and studies from around the world that explore how the power of social technologies can be harnessed for social engagement in urban areas. Chapters by leading researchers in the emerging field of urban informatics outline the theoretical context of their inquiries, describing a new view of the city as a hybrid that merges digital and physical worlds; examine technology-aided engagement involving issues of food, the environment, and sustainability; explore the creative use of location-based mobile technology in cities from Melbourne, Australia, to Dhaka, Bangladesh; study technological innovations for improving civic engagement; and discuss design research approaches for understanding the development of sentient real-time cities, including interaction portals and robots. -- Book Jacket.

Subject

• Ubiquitous computing
• Social media
• Political participation
• Social Media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The ideas and ideals in urban media / Martin de Waal -- The moral economy of social media / Paul Dourish and Christine Satchell -- The protocological surround: reconceptualizing radio and architecture in the wireless city / Gillian Fuller and Ross Harley -- Mobile media and the strategies of urban citizenship: control, responsibilization, politicization / Kurt Iveson -- Advancing design for sustainable food cultures / Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Eli Blevis -- Building digital participation hives: toward a local public sphere / Fiorella de Cindio and Cristian Peraboni -- Between experience, affect, and information: experimental urban interfaces in the climate change debate / Jonas Fritsch and Martin Brynskov -- More than friends: social and mobile media for activist organizations / Tad Hirsch -- Gardening online: a tale of suburban informatics / Bjorn Nansen, Jon M. Pearce, and Wally Smith -- The rise of the expert amateur: citizen science and microvolunteerism / Eric Paulos, Sunyoung Kim, and Stacey Kuznetsov -- Street haunting: sounding the invisible city / Sarah Barns -- Family worlds: technological engagement for families negotiating urban traffic / Hilary Davis [and others] -- Urban media: new complexities, new possibilities -- a manifesto / Christopher Kirwan and Sven Travis -- Bjornetjeneste: using the city as a backdrop for location-based interactive narratives / Jeni Paay and Jesper Kjeldskov -- Mobile interactions as social machines: poor urban youth at play in Bangladesh / Andrew Wong and Richard Ling -- Sensing, projecting, and interpreting digital identity through Bluetooth: from anonymous encounters to social engagement / Ava Fatah gen. Schieck [and others] -- The policy and export of ubiquitous place: investigating South Korean U-cities / Germaine Halegoua -- Engaging citizens and community with the UBI hotspots / Timo Ojala [and others] -- Crowdsensing in the web: analyzing the citizen experience in the urban space / Francisco C. Pereira [and others] -- Empowering urban communities through social commonalities / Laurianne Sitbon [and others] -- A streetscape portal / Michael Arnold -- Nonanthropocentrism and the nonhuman in design: possibilities for designing new forms of engagement with and through technology / Carl Di Salvo and Jonathan Lukens -- Building the open-source city: changing work environments for collaboration and innovation / Laura Forlano -- Dramatic character development personas to tailor apartment designs for different residential lfiestyles / Marcus Foth [and others].

ISBN

• 9780262016513 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262016516 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011011450

OCLC

• 710903840
• SCSB-9930025

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library