Over the last decade growing amounts of government data have been made available in an
attempt to increase transparency and civic participation, but it is unclear if this data serves …

This chapter reviews existing work on public engagement with Internet of Things (IoT)
systems from a social perspective. It contributes a taxonomy that categorises the emergent …

Although public interfaces are promised to facilitate placemaking by offering a technological
platform between citizens and decision makers, little is known about whether they actually …

The proliferation of Internet-of-Things devices in urban environments empower citizens to
appropriate data for civic purposes. Simultaneously, public visualization has shown to …

Social media platforms risk polarising public opinions by employing proprietary algorithms
that produce filter bubbles and echo chambers. As a result, the ability of citizens and …

Video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo have been used to share videos that
describe difficult life experiences, and provide a forum for people living with adversity to …

Research on media architecture to date has predominately focused on the integration of
digital technologies, such as low-resolution media façades, into urban environments within a …

As modern information communication technologies are increasingly integrated in our public
environment, challenges arise to render them locally relevant and meaningful. In this paper …

As a component of urban civic infrastructures, interactive screen technology is often studied,
designed and produced top-down style to accommodate the diverging interests of its …

Public surveys intend to integrate civic values into official decision-making. Because such
surveys are typically infrastructured from the top-down, citizens' participatory agency is often …