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Published in: Participation NowThe Quantified Self community, lifelogging and the making of “smart” publicsGary Wolf, co-founder, suggests that self-tracking and life-logging data may be about us, but they should also be...
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Published in: Participation NowYou take the high road, I'll take the low road, and we'll see who's more democratic when we get to the other end…Whilst there are many apparent similarities between the rhetoric of ‘Localism’ in England and that of ‘Community...
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Published in: Participation NowJourney into participation: a viewpoint from the Science Museum, LondonMany institutions, including London's Science Museum, are now looking to invite their audiences to take a more...
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Published in: Participation NowCreating a culture of participationAs part of our series of interviews with practitioners and activists, Participation Now researcher Hilde C....
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Published in: Participation NowBuilding relationships through participatory budgetingAs part of our series of interviews with practitioners involved in public participation initiatives, Participation...
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Published in: Participation NowEngaging EU citizens in policy makingAs part of our series of interviews with practitioners involved in public participation initiatives, Participation...
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Published in: Participation NowFrom Occupy to online democracy: the Loomio storyFlexibility was important, with people being able to change their position if their mind was changed by a persuasive...
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Published in: Participation NowTaking responsibility for Friern Barnet Community Library“Barnet claims to know what people want. But if you go into some of the libraries in Barnet, I would have to say...
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Published in: Participation NowComplaints Choir: what is it?"This project stays dynamic when people take the Complaints Choir as a tool and make use of it in their own context...
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Published in: Participation NowChanging public opinion through direct action“Starbucks felt so pressured by the public that they felt obliged to pay £20,000,000 to the HMRC.” Our series of...
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Published in: Participation NowOrganising today: stewarding and responding to ‘the people’38 degrees aims to bring people together to take action on the issues that matter to them. As part of our series of...
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Published in: Participation NowIntroducing ‘Participation Now: meet the practitioners’
Participation Now is a new Open University web platform that hosts an accessible and expanding collection of over...
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Published in: Participation NowDemocratizing inequalitiesParticipation has become a necessary basis for institutional authority in an era of declining social mobility and...
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Published in: Participation NowThe myth of the keyboard warrior: public participation and 38 DegreesPreliminary findings after completing an ethnographic study of 38 Degrees suggest that this is a new type of organisation.
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Published in: Participation NowBuilding the middle groundFor my colleagues, nothing short of complete people-driven management would do. On the other hand, the government...
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Published in: Participation NowPublic engagement, a social priority?Living in a perpetual state of fear, people prefer to isolate themselves from what they perceive as the...
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Published in: Participation NowInsider knowledgeWhile the literal meaning of utopia is ‘no place’, an OU-topia could be almost any place. Even when physically...
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Published in: Participation NowRaymond Williams and 'The emerging landscape of thought and practice'The potential for this project to tap into the many and diverse informal ‘education-for-social-purpose’ groups and...
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Published in: Participation NowThe democratic potential of activist performanceOne could hardly imagine a better illustration than Putin’s regime for the idea that the Presidency is itself a...
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Published in: Participation NowScience outreach in schoolsThere were so many questions that I had to stop taking them so that the children could finish school on time.
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