Citizens, Politics, and Civic Technology: A Conversation with g0v and EDGI

Fan, Fa‐ti; Chen, Shun-Ling; Kao, Chia-Liang; Murphy, Michelle; Price, Matt A.; Barry, Liz

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“…Responding to the decline in the quality of one's livelihood, communities, and environment, the motivation to reduce the reliance on others faraway for satisfying basic provisional needs brings people together, who strive to produce the substantiating conditions of their own lives (Busch 2014;Hayes 2010;Wagner 2007). For reclaiming their ethical and material responsibilities, activist citizens resort to concrete interventions of technical self-empowerment to imagine and explore new ways of association, production, and collaboration as seen in independent media, radical homemaking, urban farming, maker culture, tech-based activism, public labs, or citizen science (Fan et al 2019).…”

Section: Civic Technologies Craft Activism and Urine Fermentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The thriving of radical political groups on tech-media platforms or survivalist movements appropriating do-it-yourself culture provides two samples. Thus, design education is challenged to foster a self-awareness that technologies and automation can be used repressively when established ground rules of the social contract are ignored, such as rights, duties, responsibilities, and accountability (Fan et al 2019;Rushkoff 2019). For discerning technical engagement both in aspirational and self-critical terms, a guiding concept can be Christopher Kelty's (2008) "recursive publics."…”

Section: Recursive Publics and Lab-at-home Learning Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recursive publics do not just collaborate; they also contemplate on the implications of their collaboration. It can be a mutually reinforcing situation, where people keep collaborating because as they collaborate, they think and learn about this very collaboration (Fan et al, 2019). Such an interiorised form of accountability is vital for the creative reinterpretation of priorities and identity in persons and groups underlying decision-making processes and self-organisation (Bendell 2018).…”

Section: Recursive Publics and Lab-at-home Learning Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tech-enabled activism based on convening-through-collaborating across diverse life domains can be both resilience-building and fragile (Fan et al 2019). Therefore, the author deemed it worthwhile to understand these recursive dynamics and the efforts involved in more detail by analysing the ANTHROPONIX experimentation.…”

Section: Recursive Publics and Lab-at-home Learning Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, each co-crafting session featured topical presentations that sought to make the science behind the procedures more humanly relatable, to keep actions better attuned to the regenerative properties of lactic acid bacilli and lettuce plants. Embedding scientific education inside the co-crafting sessions was not just an effort to counteract the increasing separation between science research and technological development (Fan et al 2019). Humanly-relatable science was also meant to inspire a sense of awe, to shift attention away from self-focus toward the "complicity of reality creation" (Rushkoff 2019) as indicated by Vincent, "I pick up little stuff here and there every week I come; like the weird stuff, for example, that plant roots need oxygen.…”

Section: Recursions In Purpose With Harm Awareness From Withinmentioning

confidence: 99%

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This report is about an explorative co-crafting course applying the notion of recursive publics to adult learning and pro-environmental activation, which aimed to engage a diverse cohort of learners towards patterns of eating, living, and engaging that promoted wellbeing and a healthy environment. This two-month-long, university-endorsed study in Hong Kong saw 22 participants fermenting their urine in which to grow an edible plant (Lactuca sativa), thereby creating a material relationship between their bodies and the environment. Technologies were employed to bring people physically together for greater emancipatory engagement inside the shared material condition. When analyzed, these technologies revealed their potential for opening or restricting the synergies from combined purpose, expertise, and immanent life processes in recursively profound and playful ways. This civic-tech study offers a recursive self-implication approach to design education as a collective negotiation process for navigating unknown territory to converge a myriad of expertise and intended beneficiaries.

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Section: Civic Technologies Craft Activism and Urine Fermentationmentioning

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Section: Recursive Publics and Lab-at-home Learning Practicementioning

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Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2020

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Notes on Usage and Other Resources Usage NotesNaming conventions. Family names are in small caps throughout the bibliography. Articles such as von, de, and della are usually not considered to be part of the last name, but this varies by person, country, and language. Unlike in past issues of the Bibliography, Asian names are given in Western order. Alphabetization is by last name of the individual with primary responsibility for the text.Cross-referencing. Cross-references are indicated with [ref.] throughout. Crossreferences to book reviews are identified by an R before the number, and refer to items in the book review section that follows the classified listing.Indexing of author names. In some instances an item will appear twice, once alone and once as part of an encompassing work (such as a chapter in an edited volume). In those instances, the author index lists only the independent citation.Subject index. The terminology used in the subject index corresponds as closely as possible to terminology already in use either in the old Isis classification system or in one of the companion bibliographies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database (see below). New subject index terms are drawn from the Library of Congress where possible. Entirely new terminology is added at the discretion of the bibliographer.Book reviews. In the book review section, reviews are listed alphabetically by author or editor of the book. In the author index, they are listed under the author of the review, but not author of the book.Dissertations. Dissertations have been entered from the information in the electronic database UMI ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, a subscription database. General Note on Classification List of Abbreviations of Journals Cited in this IssueListed here are journals cited in this volume of the bibliography.

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Mobilizing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: From Democratic Innovation to the Political Weaponization of Disinformation

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2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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Political scholars express concern for the continued resilience of democracy in the face of multiple crises. In times of crisis, social movements articulate grievances and make demands of political leaders and policymakers. In contrast to the wave of pro-democracy movements following the 2008 global financial crash where protesters demanded accountability from elites, mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic has defied expectations in several key ways. First, the expectation for protesters to mobilize primarily online in the face of the restrictions and risk associated with large gatherings has not been upheld. Instead, we have witnessed widespread “offline” mass protests. Second, despite high mortality rates and significant disparities in the effectiveness of national public health responses, we have not witnessed widespread mobilizations demanding governments do better to protect citizens from the virus. Instead, we have seen two radically different responses: At one extreme, veterans of “pro-democracy” movements have “pivoted,” using their skills and experience to either make up for weak government responses to COVID-19 (Hong Kong) or to reinforce government efforts to contain it (Taiwan). At the other extreme, “antidemocratic” and predominantly far right-wing movements have mobilized against public health measures, circulating COVID negationist and conspiracy messages. Indeed, the political weaponization of disinformation has been a notable feature of pandemic mobilization. I analyze these contrasting trends, highlighting the challenges they pose for the effective handling of the pandemic, and their broader implications for democratic legitimacy and resilience. In so doing, I call attention to the ways that mobilization during the pandemic challenges scholars to revisit some of our assumptions about the dynamics of social movements in times of crisis, and how they can foster or erode democracy. The analysis also suggests that scholars analyzing the impact of information disorders on democracy need to pay careful attention to offline protest as well as online transmission.

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Citizens, Politics, and Civic Technology: A Conversation with g0v and EDGI

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