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What is The Social Construction of Technology

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
This is a perspective on the evolution of technology that emphasises human agency. Identified by Graham and Marvin (1996), this perspective views the evolution of technology as a social process by which a collection of individual human decisions shape how technologies will impact upon society.
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The Figmentum Project: Appropriating Information and Communication Technologies to Animate Our Urban Fabric
Colleen Morgan (Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-152-0.ch010
Abstract
This chapter explores how we may design located information and communication technologies (ICTs) to foster community sentiment. It focuses explicitly on possibilities for ICTs to create new modalities of place through exploring key factors such as shared experiences, shared knowledge and shared authorship. To contextualise this discussion in a real world setting, this chapter presents FIGMENTUM, a situated generative art application that was developed for and installed in a new urban development. FIGMENTUM is a non-service based application that aims to trigger emotional and representational place-based communities. Out of this practice-led research comes a theory and a process for designing creative place-based ICTs to animate our urban communities.
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