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Dantec, Christopher A. Le; Farrell, Robert; Christensen, Jim; Bailey, Mark; Ellis, Jason; Kellogg, Wendy A.; Edwards, W. Keith

doi:10.1145/1978942.1979189

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“…Examples include giving voicemail to homeless individuals in the US [9]; offering ad-hoc group support for NGOs [27]; delivering health information [36]; bringing web content to resource-constrained classroom settings [13]; and exchanging agricultural advice for [32] and by [29] farmers in India.…”

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Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India

Mudliar

Donner

Thies

2012

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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Rural communities in India are often underserved by the mainstream media. While there is a public discourse surrounding the issues they face, this dialogue typically takes place on television, in newspaper editorials, and on the Internet. Unfortunately, participation in such forums is limited to the most privileged members of society, excluding those individuals who have the largest stake in the conversation.This paper examines an effort to foster a more inclusive dialogue by means of a simple technology: an interactive voice forum. Called CGNet Swara, the system enables callers to record messages of local interest, and listen to messages that others have recorded. Messages are also posted on the Internet, as a supplement to an existing discussion forum.In the first 21 months of its deployment in India, CGNet Swara has logged over 70,000 phone calls and released 1,100 messages. To understand the emergent practices surrounding this system, we conduct interviews with 42 diverse stakeholders, including callers, bureaucrats, and members of the media. Our analysis contributes to the understanding of voice-based media as a vehicle for social inclusion in remote and underprivileged populations.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India

Mudliar

Donner

Thies

2012

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

100

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“…Le Dantec (2016) also situates technological design interventions towards vulnerable communities, in this case around homelessness, and the relationship between the service providers and their clients (Le Dantec 2012), towards understanding the gulf between what is required for technological adoption, a process far beyond the provision of technological access (Le Dantec et al 2011). Major events also often bring communities together, highlighting the need for cooperation and communication between different the stakeholders within them.…”

Section: Technological Interventions For Community Participation and mentioning

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Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology

2018

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SpringerBriefs in Criminology present concise summaries of cutting edge research across the fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice. It publishes small but impactful volumes of between 50-125 pages, with a clearly defined focus. The series covers a broad range of Criminology research from experimental design and methods, to brief reports and regional studies, to policy-related applications.The scope of the series spans the whole field of Criminology and Criminal Justice, with an aim to be on the leading edge and continue to advance research. The series will be international and cross-disciplinary, including a broad array of topics, including juvenile delinquency, policing, crime prevention, terrorism research, crime and place, quantitative methods, experimental research in criminology, research design and analysis, forensic science, crime prevention, victimology, criminal justice systems, psychology of law, and explanations for criminal behavior.SpringerBriefs in Criminology will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and practitioners working in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research and in related academic fields such as Sociology, Psychology, Public Health, Economics and Political Science. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. We also thank the following people for their great contributions to the success of this publication starting with the KEMEA member, Mr. Panayiotis Papanikolaou, whose technological and organization skills have no match; Katherine Chabalko from Springer whose vis...

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“…To cater specifically to the need of communication between shelter staff and the homeless regarding available services, reminders about appointments, preservation of any accumulated knowledge and experiences of homelessness, and any inquires beneficiaries may have, Le Dantec et al [8] created the Community Resource Messenger-Web Application (CRM). They found that it enabled "immediate action to be taken" [8] regarding any issues that arose via the application and amplified the relationships between staff and residents. In this sense, mobile and information technologies assist in connecting the homeless population with friends and family [8], and are also an important factor in building collaboration in neighbourhoods [26].…”

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“…They found that it enabled "immediate action to be taken" [8] regarding any issues that arose via the application and amplified the relationships between staff and residents. In this sense, mobile and information technologies assist in connecting the homeless population with friends and family [8], and are also an important factor in building collaboration in neighbourhoods [26]. Ultimately, it is these social networks and ties that have an impact in whether or not the person is able to get off the street [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Precise statistics of homelessness are lacking, partly because there are many definitions of homelessness ranging from a literal meaning of not having a roof over one's head [26] to describing "any form of accommodation which does not meet the prevailing cultural standard" [11] and even people living under "threat of eviction" [12]. HCI research has begun to attend to the diverse information and technology practices and the possibilities afforded by digital technology for people experiencing homelessness [8,35]. In this paper we add to this growing body of research focusing on the special case of Romania and explore educational needs and interests, as well as current involvement in education, among homeless adults as a means to support people experiencing homelessness in the context of progression opportunity environments, or the opportunity for progressing up a scale of opportunities.…”

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Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Strohmayer

Comber

Balaam

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Non-homeless youths outperform their homeless peers in school even if they live in extreme poverty. This disadvantage can have long-term consequences for engagement with and navigation of wider society. In this paper we examine how differences in achievement could be tackled outside of school through the re-envisioning of ecologies of digital education. Through interviews, design workshops, and a street visit with a total of 20 homeless young adults during a three-week engagement with a centre for people of low social stability in Bucharest, Romania, we examine the perceptions of education among street involved youth or adults. We identify the core values, aspirations, opportunities and barriers for education among these people, including survival, friendship, learning networks, and curiosity. These findings resulted in five implications for design: learning 'happens', learning 'works', designing for distanced learning, designing for the social politics of learning, and designing artefacts of everyday learning. These show the importance and necessity of educational reform in the field of HCI.

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Publics in practice

Cited by 80 publications

References 28 publications

Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India

Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India

Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology

Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

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