@inproceedings{03a8bda3857f4c8cbebfd11545389d57,
title = "Designing public spaces for democratic stories",
abstract = "We argue that civic discourse can also be public storytelling and propose three reasons to consider this relationship: stories' relational nature - their ability to represent uniquely human perspectives and emotions - may ameliorate aspects of citizens' disinterest in civic life; the ability of stories to represent both individual perspectives and cultural norms may offer a form of public opinion that is relevant on both personal and collective scales; and the inherent transparency of familiar narrative forms may offer new ways to explicate unfamiliar aspects civic discourse. We propose a relationship between civic discourse and public storytelling and review one system called TexTales in relation to a developing model of {"}democratic stories.{"}",
keywords = "Community installation, Democratic stories, Participatory design, Public opinion",
author = "Mike Ananny and Carol Strohecker",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context ; Conference date: 15-10-2004 Through 15-10-2004",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.1145/1026633.1026644",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1581139314",
series = "SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "47--50",
booktitle = "SRMC '04 - Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context",
address = "United States",
}
