Social media as a platform for participatory design

A talk about my published paper for the Participatory Design Conference 2012 in Roskilde. I reflect on my research on using Social media as a platform for executing a Participatory design process, and how this process raised questions of emancipation, silence, and degrees of participation.

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1. Social Media Participatory Design as a platform for Lill Francis Reyes & Sisse Finken Dept. of informatics, University of Oslo PDC2012
2. Why translate methods? Translating a traditional method and letting it unfold online can give new value to both the method, and Social Media
3. Translations Letting the method unfold in the online setting by using the resources enabled by Social Media
5. Facilitation ” I feel a bit like an amateur compared to the others” (e-mail from participant)
6. Time An online Future Workshop can last for almost 4 weeks straight!
7. Degrees of participation ”I haven’t contributed with anything yet, but I have been reading the comments and contributions on my mobile phone while on the tram” (Random meeting with partiticpant)
8. Ethical issues ”I felt a bit stressed out from all the commenting” (Interview with participant)
9. Choice of platform Choice of platform affects the process and the outcome.
10. Lill Francis Reyes lill.fm.reyes@gmail.com Sisse Finken Sisse.finken@ifi.uio.no Thank you