Rich digital media as a tool in post-conflict truth and reconciliation

Best, Michael L.; Long, William J.; Etherton, J. R.; Smyth, Thomas N.

doi:10.1177/1750635211420628

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“…They illustrate ways that media embeds culture by referring to verbal and visual languages in the interface of MOSES, a system Western developers designed to support reconciliation in post-conflict Liberia (Best et al 2009(Best et al , 2011. MOSES designers sought to enable people to make and watch videos in public kiosks, and Meritt and Bardzell (2011) discuss mismatches between the hierarchical menu, buttons and voice prompts and participants' responses in a prototyping exercise.…”

Section: Translating Oral Users Through a Writing Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving the centre to design social media in rural Africa

Bidwell

2014

AI & Soc

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Efforts to design voice-based, social media platforms for low-literacy communities in developing countries have not widened access to information in the ways intended. This article links this to who describes the relations that constitute personhood and how these relations are expressed in designing and deploying systems. I make these links oriented by critique in human-computer interaction that design continues a history of colonialism and embeds meanings in media that disrupt existing communication practices. I explore how we translated 'logics' about sociality through logics located outside of the rural South African community that we targeted for design and deployment. The system aimed to enable inhabitants to record, store and share voice files using a portable, communally owned display. I describe how we engaged with inhabitants, to understand needs, and represented and abstracted from encounters to articulate requirements, which we translated into statements about technology. Use of the system was not as predicted. My analysis suggests that certain writing cultures, embedded in translations, reify knowledge, disembody voices and neglect the rhythms of life. This biases social media towards individualist logics and limits affordances for forms, genres and other elements of communication that contribute to sociality. Thus, I propose oral practices offer oppositional power in designing digital bubbles to support human togetherness and that we can enrich design by moving the centre-a phrase taken from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Moving the centre: the struggle for cultural freedoms, James Currey, London, 1993) who insists that liberation from colonialism requires plural sites of creativity. To realize this potential, we need radically different approaches that enable symmetrical translation.

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Section: Translating Oral Users Through a Writing Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving the centre to design social media in rural Africa

Bidwell

2014

AI & Soc

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“…For example, in a systematic study of users of interactive rich media technologies and post-conflict reconciliation in Liberia, we have discovered how these computer systems can have deep psychological effects important to peacebuilding and national healing. 3 These early results notwithstanding, considerable research is required to fully understand the effect of these systems in helping bring and sustain peace in troubled nations.…”

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Peacebuilding in a networked world

Best

2013

Commun. ACM

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“…11 In addition, Best et al discuss the importance of digital tools in the process of peace-building in countries after civil conflicts. 12 The architecture of the data summarization system developed for the CNV is shown in Figure 1. An important aspect that should be understood is that several data sources in different formats are used.…”

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Notes from the Field: The Role of Datasets in Transitional Justice Research: The Case of Brazilian Truth Commission

Mezarobba¹,

César²

2016

tjr

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In 2012, Brazilian President Dilma Roussef installed the Brazilian Truth Commission (CNV) to address gross human rights violations that occurred from . One of the most important sources of information available regarding this period is the files of the agencies that comprised the Brazilian intelligence system during the dictatorship. In total, there were around 12 million pages of relevant text in the National Archives. To make effective use of this trove of information, the CNV was challenged to use some data science tools to look for useful information within this huge dataset. As a result, a prototype of a data repository with selected documents (pdfs, images, etc.) has been created, which we summarize in this note. Computational tools for searching, organizing, and visualizing potentially important documents were developed and utilized to support CNV researchers. We also reflect upon the issues that complicated the CNV's ability to gain access to reliable and comprehensive data and the limitations of analysis conducted with this type of research.

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Rich digital media as a tool in post-conflict truth and reconciliation

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Moving the centre to design social media in rural Africa

Moving the centre to design social media in rural Africa

Peacebuilding in a networked world

Notes from the Field: The Role of Datasets in Transitional Justice Research: The Case of Brazilian Truth Commission

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