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In this paper, I introduce my graduate research focused on the design of digital environments for community expression. I introduce the specific project, Village Voice, which originates from my MSc work at the MIT Media Laboratory. This project involved the design of a digital environment that could make possible the sharing of knowledge, story, and cultural tradition as documented through video and audio across a physically bounded Somali refugee community located within the Boston-area. I point to the unique architecture around which the system is designed, and where it stands relative to important issues of public space and urbanism. Finally, I discuss how this new type of ICT-space evaluates (based on an empirical study) as a mechanism of engaging community.
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Srinivasan, R. (2005). Articulating the Digital Environment Via Community-Generated Ontologies. In: van den Besselaar, P., Koizumi, S. (eds) Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Digital Cities 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3081. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11407546_14
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