Informing Digital Futures Strategies for Citizen Engagement /

• Main Authors: Damodaran, Leela (Author), Olphert, Wendy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 37
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Multimedia information systems.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Graphic design.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Models and Principles.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Interaction Design.

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some disliked or even feared, which we cannot influence but must accept. This book discusses the urgent need to redress this situation. The authors argue that technologies succeed o...

Table of Contents:

• Designing Digital Futures
• The Case for Engagement
• Citizen Engagement in Practice
• Giving a Voice to the ‘Hard to Hear’
• Modelling Citizen Engagement
• Citizen Engagement in ICT Design: The Challenge
• Strategies for Citizen Engagement: (i) Shifting the Focus of ICT Design Practice
• Strategies for Citizen Engagement (ii) – Tools and Techniques
• Achieving a Culture of Participation and Engagement.