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Lookup NU author(s): Anja Thieme, Dr Vasilis Vlachokyriakos
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© 2017 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht We present findings from a five-week deployment of voting technologies in a city neighbourhood. Drawing on Marres’ (2012) work on material participation and Massey’s (2005) conceptualisation of space as dynamic, we designed the deployment such that the technologies (which were situated in residents’ homes, on the street, and available online) would work in concert, cutting across the neighbourhood to make visible, juxtapose and draw together the different ‘small worlds’ within it. We demonstrate how the material infrastructure of the voting devices set in motion particular processes and interpretations of participation, putting data in place in a way that had ramifications for the recognition of heterogeneity. We conclude that redistributing participation means not only opening up access, so that everyone can participate, or even providing a multitude of voting channels, so that people can participate in different ways. Rather, it means making visible multiplicity, challenging notions of similarity, and showing how difference may be productive.
Author(s): Lindley SE, Thieme A, Taylor AS, Vlachokyriakos V, Regan T, Sweeney D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal
Year: 2017
Volume: 26
Issue: 1
Pages: 135-163
Print publication date: 01/04/2017
Online publication date: 06/02/2017
Acceptance date: 02/04/2016
ISSN (print): 0925-9724
ISSN (electronic): 1573-7551
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9263-3
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-017-9263-3
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