Situated Community Technology C&T 2009

Community technology to support geographically-based communities Joe McCarthy Principal Instigator Strands Labs Seattle Situated place- IRL (in real life)

Three themes
Mobile vs. Situated
Space vs. Place
Online vs. Offline
But first: three plugs …

An example: CoCollage A system consisting of a large display that shows a collage of photos and quotes uploaded to a special web site by patrons and staff in a café or other community-oriented place .

Placed Community session Session Chair: Marcus Foth , Queensland University of Technology, Australia Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Saturday Place: IST 208 The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm Keith N Hampton , Oren Livio, Lauren Sessions University of Pennsylvania Facilitating Participatory Decision-Making in Local Communities through Map-Based Online Discussion Bo Yu,, Guoray Cai Pennsylvania State University Supporting Community in Third Places with Situated Social Software Joseph F. McCarthy , Shelly D. Farnham, Yogi Patel, Sameer Ahuja, William R. Hazlewood, Daniel Norman, Josh Lind Strands Labs

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Communities, Inc. ?
Centralization, extraction, exploitation
Disconnection, division, distance
Individualism vs. collectivism
Spectators (spectacles) vs. participants
Top-down vs. bottom-up
Subjects  citizens  consumers
Place  property  mortgage  derivative investments
We have met the corporation, and they is us. lifeincorporated.net

Mobile vs. Situated
Mobile Social Software
Maintain existing connections
Ambient intimacy (Leisa Reichert)
Continuous partial friendship (David Weinberger)
Situated Social Software
Create new connections
Serendipitous encounters
Familiar strangers
“ A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet.” - Will Rogers

Space vs. Place
Re-place-ing space (Harrison & Dourish, 1996)
Space is the opportunity; place is the understood reality
We are located in “space”, but we act in “place”
Appropriate behavioral framing
Location-based services (locative media)
Who / what is nearby? Maybe I’ll go there…
Place-based services
Who / what is here? Maybe I’ll make contact …

Online vs. Offline
Effort vs. impact
“ We want communication to cost something because that cost signals that we value the other person, that we value them enough to spare our time and attention.”
danah boyd, “Valuing efficiencies & unreliability”
Virtual world vs. real world
Virtual protests vs. WatchJeffersonCounty.org
Taking it to the streets (or the cafés)
Being present, showing up, being counted … & counting

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