Making cultures: Empowerment, participation, and democracy - Or not?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1087-1092

  Ames, Morgan ^a   Lindtner, Silvia ^a   Bardzell, Jeffrey ^b   Mellis, David ^c   Bardzell, Shaowen ^b   Rosner, Daniela K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; DIY; Empowerment; Future visions; Hacking; Maker culture; Making; Materiality; Participation; Peer production; Sociotechnical systems

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

DIY; EMPOWERMENT; FUTURE VISIONS; MAKING; MATERIALITY; PARTICIPATION; PEER PRODUCTION; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84900556954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2579405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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