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Prefigurative Design as an Alternative Approach to Civic Engagement

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CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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Published: 30 October 2018 Publication History

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This submission describes my participatory action research with activist and advocacy organizations in Atlanta. This works shows patterns across these groups' technological and organizational practices and reveals assumptions on digital tools and civic participation. Activist practices point to alternate sociopolitical values through which we might broaden understandings of digitally mediated civic engagement. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and anarchist organizing literature, I suggest prefigurative design as a means to better leverage design in solidarity with radical community work. Prefigurative design is a prompt to re-evaluate our professional practices and resources to better support progressive political efforts.

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Prefigurative Design as an Alternative Approach to Civic Engagement
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. Field studies
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics

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CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2018

518 pages

ISBN:9781450360180

DOI:10.1145/3272973

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