OurCity: Understanding How Visualization and Aggregation of User-Generated Content Can Engage Citizens in Community Participation

Authors

  • Will Simm Lancaster University
  • Jon Whittle Lancaster University
  • Adam Nieman GovEd Communications
  • Anna Portman Lancaster University
  • John Sibbald Manchester Communication Academy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i5.14219

Keywords:

artwork, citizen engagement, NLP, Language processing, social media,

Abstract

OurCity is a site-specific digital artwork designed to solicit, aggregate and visualize citizens’ views on the cities in which they live. It aims to allow people to have their voice heard in a way which is fun and engaging and reduces the gap between citizens and policymakers. OurCity builds on our previous work, VoiceYourView (Whittle et al 2010) which used similar data aggregation techniques but a completely different visualization of user-generated data. This paper revisits the key results from VoiceYourView and hence uses OurCity as an additional validation exercise to assess whether VoiceYourView results are generalizable.

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Published

2021-08-03

How to Cite

Simm, W., Whittle, J., Nieman, A., Portman, A., & Sibbald, J. (2021). OurCity: Understanding How Visualization and Aggregation of User-Generated Content Can Engage Citizens in Community Participation. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 6(5), 36-41. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v6i5.14219

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 5 (2012): ICWSM Workshop Technical Report WS-12-04 (When the City Meets the Citizen)

Section

When the City Meets the Citizen