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

Morgan Ames; Silvia Lindtner; Jeffrey Bardzell; David Mellis; Shaowen Bardzell; Daniela K. Rosner

doi:10.1145/2559206.2579405

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

Morgan Ames, Silvia Lindtner, Jeffrey Bardzell, David Mellis, Shaowen Bardzell, Daniela K. Rosner

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Making has transformed from a fringe and hobbyist practice into a professionalizing field and an emerging industry. Enthusiasts laud its potential to democratize technology, improve the workforce, empower consumers, encourage citizen science, and contribute to the global economy. Yet critics counter that in the West, making often remains a hobby for the privileged and seems to be increasingly co-opted by corporate interests. This panel brings together HCI scholars and practitioners active in making, handwork, DIY, crafts, and tool design to examine and debate the visions that come from maker cultures.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2014
Subtitle of host publication	One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1087-1092
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450324748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2579405
State	Published - 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: Apr 26 2014 → May 1 2014

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto, ON
Period	4/26/14 → 5/1/14

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Ames, M., Lindtner, S., Bardzell, J., Mellis, D., Bardzell, S., & Rosner, D. K. (2014). Making cultures: Empowerment, participation, and democracy - Or not? In CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1087-1092). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2579405

Ames, Morgan ; Lindtner, Silvia ; Bardzell, Jeffrey et al. / Making cultures : Empowerment, participation, and democracy - Or not?. CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 1087-1092 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 1087-1092 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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