The web and mobile phones have transformed how people engage in local civic life. Information is more accessible and opportunities to participate are more apparent. But as traditional indicators of civic engagement are in decline, including voting and meeting attendance, what I call the civic web is in need of design.
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Beyond Participation: Designing for the Civic Web
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Recent Submissions
- Altruism Meets Participatory Video: A Correlational Study of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
- A Design Framework of Interactive Media
- In the Digital Age, It’s a Rhetorical Tetrahedron: Where Composition Theory Meets Media Literacy
- In the Context of Many Contexts: A Review of Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and Information by Andrew Hilton
- Drowning in Information While Starving for Wisdom: A Review of In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria
