In Search of the Alternative Future: Developing Participatory Digital Citizenship to Address the Crisis of Democracy

Johanna Ylipulli; Aale Luusua

doi:10.1145/3411763.3441318

Abstract

In this workshop, we strive to formulate a working definition of a participatory digital citizenship, and to share issues, challenges, opportunities, methods and empirical examples pertaining to participatory digital citizenship as a goal. The rational for such a work lies in extensive digitalization of everyday life, which has turned data into valuable capital and a means of manipulation. Excessively datafied environments and more and more powerful algorithms and artificial intelligences used for processing data pose a threat to societies' democratic arrangements and principles. Our goal is to explore the possibilities and limitations of expanding the concept of digital citizenship towards a direction that addresses the deep power asymmetry existing between the ones that use data and ones that are monitored.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441318
Publication status	Published - 8 May 2021
MoE publication type	Not Eligible
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Virtual, Online, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 https://chi2021.acm.org/

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	08/05/2021 → 13/05/2021
Internet address	https://chi2021.acm.org/

Keywords

artificial intelligence
big data
democracy
Digital citizenship
digital literacy
participation
surveillance capitalism

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