Public Information: Documents, Spectacles and the Politics of Public Participation

Scott Minneman, S. Joy Mountford, Natalie Jeremijenko, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Anthony Turner, Mike Davis

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Abstract

This proposed panel addresses the representation of the public in the information age. For the most part, new technologies delivered by corporate interests envision the 'public' as markets, separated into demographic age groups, income brackets and individual consumption behaviors. In the information age, public representation is synonymous with the market, voting and buying are conflated, and politics is a subbranch of marketing. This panel focuses on recent works that transcends categories of consumption and represents the public to itself outside of this arena. What are the possibilities for shared public experience rendered by new technologies? What interventions have been made in the political work of constructing public identity?.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCHI 98 Conference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1998
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages78-79
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)1581130287, 9781581130287
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 1998
Event1998 ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, CHI 1998 - Los Angeles, United States
Duration: Apr 18 1998Apr 23 1998

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference1998 ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, CHI 1998
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Period4/18/984/23/98

Keywords

  • group work
  • public art
  • public documents
  • public participation
  • shared viewing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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