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OurCity: Understanding How Visualization and Aggregation of User-Generated Content Can Engage Citizens in Community Participation

Authors

Will Simm,Jon Whittle,Adam Nieman,Anna Portman,John Sibbald

Lancaster University,Lancaster University,GovEd Communications,Lancaster University,Manchester Communication Academy


Proceedings:

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6

Volume

Issue:

Vol. 6 No. 5 (2012): ICWSM Workshop Technical Report WS-12-04 (When the City Meets the Citizen)

Track:

When the City Meets the Citizen

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Abstract:

OurCity is a site-specific digital artwork designed to solicit, aggregate and visualize citizens’ views on the cities in which they live. It aims to allow people to have their voice heard in a way which is fun and engaging and reduces the gap between citizens and policymakers. OurCity builds on our previous work, VoiceYourView (Whittle et al 2010) which used similar data aggregation techniques but a completely different visualization of user-generated data. This paper revisits the key results from VoiceYourView and hence uses OurCity as an additional validation exercise to assess whether VoiceYourView results are generalizable.

DOI:

10.1609/icwsm.v6i5.14219


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Vol. 6 No. 5 (2012): ICWSM Workshop Technical Report WS-12-04 (When the City Meets the Citizen)