@article{1385801,
      recid = {1385801},
      author = {Le Dantec, Christopher A.,},
      title = {Designing publics /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 151 pages).},
      abstract = {Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly  embedded themselves in every aspect of modern life --  conducting commerce, maintaining and extending our networks  of friends, and mobilizing political movements all occur  through a growing collection of devices and services  designed to keep and hold our attention. Yet what happens  when our attention needs to be more local, collective, and  focused on our immediate communities? Perhaps more  important, how can we imagine and create new technologies  with local communities? In Designing Publics, Christopher  Le Dantec explores these questions by designing  technologies with the urban homeless. Drawing on a case  study of the design of a computational infrastructure in a  shelter for homeless women and their children, Le Dantec  theorizes an alternate vision of design in community  contexts. Focusing on collective action through design, Le  Dantec investigates the way design can draw people together  on social issues and create and sustain a public. By  "designing publics" he refers both to the way publics arise  out of design intervention and to the generative action  publics take -- how they "do design" as they mobilize and  act in the world. This double lens offers a new view of how  design and a diverse set of design practices circulate in  sites of collective action rather than commercial  production.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1385801},
}