What Makes Civic Tech Initiatives To Last Over Time? Dissecting Two Global Cases

Hamm, Andrea; Shibuya, Yuya; Ullrich, Stefan; Pargman, Teresa Cerratto

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445667

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“…This is essential to grassroots civic tech since data created by the community using FOSS artifacts should be free and open. 13 Related empirical research supports the findings that free and open source artifacts and open data are key success factors in scaling up efforts in citizen sciencerelated civic tech 15 and actors in the field recommending concrete accountability mechanisms. 1 In Sensor.Community, openness in the form of transparency is the key as it provides evidence for the presence of poor air quality in the local area.…”

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Civic Code for Social Change: Lessons in Civic Tech Grassroots for Software Engineers

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“…As well as in a large number of non-interventional studies (e.g. [8,36,45,82,89,90]): with the goal to create knowledge, many studies explore existing environments and systems without feeling the need to alter them. Instead, a key contribution of these studies can be to explicitly open up design/research spaces for impactful follow-up work (within and outside of academia), see e.g.…”

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Have We Taken On Too Much?: A Critical Review of the Sustainable HCI Landscape

Bremer

Knowles

Friday

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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By CHI 2022, ffteen years will have passed since the emergence of Sustainable HCI (SHCI), which now constitutes an important subfeld of HCI. In this paper, we draw on two SHCI corpora to ask: Has SHCI progressed? How has the feld responded to prominent critiques? Have we identifed and adopted constructive strategies for impacting environmental unsustainability? We further show the wide array of competencies SHCI researchers have been called to develop, and how this has been refected in subsequent work. Our analysis identifes signifcant shifts in the SHCI landscape, toward research that is diverse and holistic, but also away from eforts to address the urgent climate crisis. We posit that SHCI has tended to take on far more than it could reasonably expect to deliver, and propose 'Green Policy informatics' as a pathway that enables SHCI to leverage a more traditional HCI skillset in addressing climate change. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Sustainability; • Humancentered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI).

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“…However, unlike other social media platforms, Instagram's features do not lend themselves easily to political and social activism. Earlier work on social media activism on other platforms have focused on multi-layered activity and message cascades such as retweet and mention networks [15]. However, Instagram lacks a direct proxy to such modalities.…”

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Screenshots, Symbols, and Personal Thoughts: The Role of Instagram for Social Activism

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Braud

Yau

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Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

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In this paper, we highlight the use of Instagram for social activism, taking 2019 Hong Kong protests as a case study. Instagram focuses on image content and provides users with few features to share or repost, limiting information propagation. Nevertheless, users who are politically active offline also share their activism on Instagram. We first evaluate the effect of protests on social media activity for protesters and non-protesters over two significant protests. Protesters' exposure to protest-related posts is much higher than non-protesters, and their network activity follows the protest schedule. They are also much more active on posts related to the protest that they participate in than the other protest. We then analyze the images posted by the users. Users predominantly use symbols related to protests and share personal thoughts on its primary actors. Users primarily share content to raise their network's awareness, and the content choice is directly affected by Instagram's intrinsic interaction modalities. CCS CONCEPTS• Networks → Social media networks; • Human-centered computing → User studies; Web-based interaction; Social content sharing; Social media.

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What Makes Civic Tech Initiatives To Last Over Time? Dissecting Two Global Cases

Cited by 21 publications

References 61 publications

Civic Code for Social Change: Lessons in Civic Tech Grassroots for Software Engineers

Civic Code for Social Change: Lessons in Civic Tech Grassroots for Software Engineers

Have We Taken On Too Much?: A Critical Review of the Sustainable HCI Landscape

Screenshots, Symbols, and Personal Thoughts: The Role of Instagram for Social Activism

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