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Constructing Public Discourse with Ethnographic/SMS “Texts”

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Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2003)

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We are interested in how individuals and communities develop opinions as they design and use new mobile, public-sphere technologies. We situate our work among new considerations of ethnography, mobile technologies and rhetoric and describe the design and pilot installation of a new technology called TexTales designed to support mobile public discourse.

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Ananny, M., Biddick, K., Strohecker, C. (2003). Constructing Public Discourse with Ethnographic/SMS “Texts”. In: Chittaro, L. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Mobile HCI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45233-1_30

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