Toward a Public Rhetoric Through Participatory Design: Critical Engagements and Creative Expression in the Neighborhood Networks Project

摘要

In her paper, "P for Political," Beck poses the question: "What constitutes political action through computing?" Certainly, the history and range of contemporary projects in Participatory Design provide a rich and varied set of answers to that question. To those answers, we would like to propose two others: prompting critical engagements with technology and enabling people to use technology to produce creative expressions about issues of concern.