Designing public spaces for democratic stories

Mike Ananny; Carol Strohecker

doi:10.1145/1026633.1026644

Designing public spaces for democratic stories

Mike Ananny
, Carol Strohecker

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Abstract

We argue that civic discourse can also be public storytelling and propose three reasons to consider this relationship: stories' relational nature - their ability to represent uniquely human perspectives and emotions - may ameliorate aspects of citizens' disinterest in civic life; the ability of stories to represent both individual perspectives and cultural norms may offer a form of public opinion that is relevant on both personal and collective scales; and the inherent transparency of familiar narrative forms may offer new ways to explicate unfamiliar aspects civic discourse. We propose a relationship between civic discourse and public storytelling and review one system called TexTales in relation to a developing model of "democratic stories."

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	47-50
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	1581139314, 9781581139310
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1026633.1026644
State	Published - 2004
Event	SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context - New York, NY, United States Duration: Oct 15 2004 → Oct 15 2004

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Name	SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context

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Other	SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York, NY
Period	10/15/04 → 10/15/04

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Community installation
Democratic stories
Participatory design
Public opinion

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Ananny, M., & Strohecker, C. (2004). Designing public spaces for democratic stories. In SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context (pp. 47-50). (SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/1026633.1026644

Designing public spaces for democratic stories. / Ananny, Mike; Strohecker, Carol.
SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2004. p. 47-50 (SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context).

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Ananny, M & Strohecker, C 2004, Designing public spaces for democratic stories. in SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context. SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 47-50, SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context, New York, NY, United States, 10/15/04. https://doi.org/10.1145/1026633.1026644

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