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PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism

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Vasilis Vlachokyriakos,

Patrick McCorry,

Patrick OlivierAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems

Pages 795 - 804

https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598523

Published: 21 June 2014 Publication History

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Online and digital technologies support and extend the action repertoires of localized social movements. In this paper we examine the ways by which digital technologies can support "on-the-ground" activist communities in the development of social movements. After identifying some of the challenges of deploying conventional voting and consultation technologies for activism, we examine situated political action in local communities through the design and deployment of a low-cost community voting prototype, PosterVote. We deploy PosterVote in two case studies with two local community organizations identifying the features that supported or hindered grassroots democratic practices. Through interviews with these communities, we explore the design of situated voting systems to support participation within an ecology of social action.

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