Open content creation: The issues of voice and the challenges of listening

Tacchi, Jo

doi:10.1177/1461444811422431

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Tacchi (2012) highlights several examples from an applied research project that brought information and communication technologies to communities in various parts of Asia. In Sri Lanka, participatory content strategies were used to give voice to Tamil youth-who experienced social exclusion due to ethnic and linguistic factors-and provide a forum for debate about important local issues.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

'There’s no media for refugees': Information and communication in camps on the Thai-Burma border

Jack

2017

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This article uses the example of camps on the Thai-Burma border to highlight the exclusion of refugees from the common world and subsequent omission of their voices from news coverage. Moreover, the article argues that this exclusion weakens the supposed protection offered to refugees by impeding the media in its role as protector and promoter of human rights. While there has been considerable literature examining the reporting of humanitarian crises to a global audience, in contrast there has been little in the way of research-and practice-concerning strategies to effectively communicate with refugees affected by such crises. Fieldwork conducted in three of nine official Thai-Burma border camps involved interviews with 81 participants, including refugees, humanitarian practitioners and journalists. Participant accounts show that a range of factors inhibit the production of news media coverage relevant to refugees interned in the Thai-Burma border camps, thereby preventing refugees from accessing vital information and voicing in common public space their experiences of violence, corruption and discrimination. A handful of exiled media groups provide poorly funded exceptions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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'There’s no media for refugees': Information and communication in camps on the Thai-Burma border

Jack

2017

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“…'Voice' was treated as a multidimensional concept that embodied ideals of empowerment and expansion of agency for pursuing selfdesigned goals for knowledge production and communication (drawing on Sen, 1999;Tacchi, 2008). The project involved the members of two Roma minority communities in rural Romania, who co-designed and codeveloped digital communication artefacts that reflected their collective goals for knowledge production, representation, and communication.…”

Section: Case Descriptions Romani Voices: Pd For Cultural Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging spaces in community-based participatory design

Sabiescu

David

Zyl

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference on Research Papers - PDC '14

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This paper engages with issues of universality and locality in the context of community-based participatory design (PD), and focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with incorporating local views and forms of participation in the design process. The notion of 'designing for participation' is advanced as a quintessential perspective for approaches in which design practices are re-configured from a community-centric standpoint. Building on insights from PD and community development studies, as well as on empirical evidence from two community design studies, we argue that designing for participation appears to be located in a space between the designer's and local views of participation, which are at times both ambiguous and conflicting. To overcome these tensions, we argue for the importance of engaging critically and reflectively with PD in community contexts, and in this process capitalising on disciplinary dialogues that can expand the viewpoint from which PD projects are negotiated and evaluated.

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“…Participatory evaluation of communication for development will always, to some extent, involve challenging power relationships and structures. This is because it depends on actively engaging a range of people, encouraging voice but also prioritizing effective and active listening and respecting alternative forms of knowledge (Quarry and Ramirez 2009;Servaes 2008;Tacchi 2012). Participatory framework for evaluating communication for development Four new conceptualisations of evaluation and shifts in evaluation practice underpin the framework and are significant to understanding and evaluating communication for development: 1.…”

Section: Participatory Evaluation Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%