Christopher A Le Dantec
Biographic Data
| ID | 3099640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher A Le Dantec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher A |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Dantec |
| SIGNATURE | LE DANTEC C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8338-4852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Removing Barriers’ and ‘Creating Distance’
Oriented around efficiency, civic technology primarily aims to remove barriers by automating and streamlining processes of government. While removing barriers is vital in many matters of governance, should it always be the aim of civic technology? In our ongoing ethnographic research to understand the work of community engagement performed by public officials in local government, we have observed how this orientation around efficiency in civic te…
“This Is Shared Work
This article discusses the results from our fieldwork at a social service intermediary organization working to reform criminal justice institutions in a large city in the American South. Our findings focus on organizational staff’s relationships with information and communication technologies (ICTs), both in the course of their daily work of delivering care work to vulnerable participants, as well as the project’s broader political goals to reduc…
Civic design
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
Atlanta's Westside residents challenge the rules of sport mega-development
We describe findings from a five-year participatory action research collaboration in predominantly African-American Atlanta neighbourhoods. The historic communities with whom we worked are located next to the 1992 Georgia Dome and the 2017 Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Drawing on interviews and participant observations, we outline the emergence of novel forms of ‘activist play’ that were mobilised to challenge the development of the 2017 stadium. This p…
Design through collective action / collective action through design
Social design focuses on the creation of interactive systems meant to empower and support collective action. To support and empower meaningful collective action, designers need to attend to the relations that occur in civic life. "Publics" provide a conceptual frame, theorizing social design and structuring design interventions through issues, attachments, and infrastructures. or another. At times those human experiences might be plain to see-via…
Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design
Of late, there has been a renewed and reinvigorated exchange of ideas across science and technology studies and participatory design, emerging from a shared interest in ‘publics’. In this article, we explore the role of participatory design in constituting publics, drawing together recent scholarship in both science and technology studies and participatory design. To frame our discussion, we present two case studies of community-based participato…
Considering the rights (and wrongs) of community technology
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. Christopher A. Le Dantec
Featurelife at the margins
research-article Share on FEATURELife at the margins: assessing the role of technology for the urban homeless Author: Christopher A. Le Dantec GVU Center at Georgia Tech GVU Center at Georgia TechView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 15Issue 5September + October 2008 pp 24–27https://doi.org/10.1145/1390085.1390090Online:01 September 2008Publication History 9citation623DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations9Total Downloads623Last 12 Month…
Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design
Of late, there has been a renewed and reinvigorated exchange of ideas across science and technology studies and participatory design, emerging from a shared interest in ‘publics’. In this article, we explore the role of participatory design in constituting publics, drawing together recent scholarship in both science and technology studies and participatory design. To frame our discussion, we present two case studies of community-based participato…
Atlanta's Westside residents challenge the rules of sport mega-development
We describe findings from a five-year participatory action research collaboration in predominantly African-American Atlanta neighbourhoods. The historic communities with whom we worked are located next to the 1992 Georgia Dome and the 2017 Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Drawing on interviews and participant observations, we outline the emergence of novel forms of ‘activist play’ that were mobilised to challenge the development of the 2017 stadium. This p…
Featurelife at the margins
research-article Share on FEATURELife at the margins: assessing the role of technology for the urban homeless Author: Christopher A. Le Dantec GVU Center at Georgia Tech GVU Center at Georgia TechView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 15Issue 5September + October 2008 pp 24–27https://doi.org/10.1145/1390085.1390090Online:01 September 2008Publication History 9citation623DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations9Total Downloads623Last 12 Month…
Considering the rights (and wrongs) of community technology
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. Christopher A. Le Dantec
Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design
Of late, there has been a renewed and reinvigorated exchange of ideas across science and technology studies and participatory design, emerging from a shared interest in ‘publics’. In this article, we explore the role of participatory design in constituting publics, drawing together recent scholarship in both science and technology studies and participatory design. To frame our discussion, we present two case studies of community-based participato…
Design through collective action / collective action through design
Social design focuses on the creation of interactive systems meant to empower and support collective action. To support and empower meaningful collective action, designers need to attend to the relations that occur in civic life. "Publics" provide a conceptual frame, theorizing social design and structuring design interventions through issues, attachments, and infrastructures. or another. At times those human experiences might be plain to see-via…
Civic design
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
Atlanta's Westside residents challenge the rules of sport mega-development
We describe findings from a five-year participatory action research collaboration in predominantly African-American Atlanta neighbourhoods. The historic communities with whom we worked are located next to the 1992 Georgia Dome and the 2017 Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Drawing on interviews and participant observations, we outline the emergence of novel forms of ‘activist play’ that were mobilised to challenge the development of the 2017 stadium. This p…
‘Removing Barriers’ and ‘Creating Distance’
Oriented around efficiency, civic technology primarily aims to remove barriers by automating and streamlining processes of government. While removing barriers is vital in many matters of governance, should it always be the aim of civic technology? In our ongoing ethnographic research to understand the work of community engagement performed by public officials in local government, we have observed how this orientation around efficiency in civic te…
“This Is Shared Work
This article discusses the results from our fieldwork at a social service intermediary organization working to reform criminal justice institutions in a large city in the American South. Our findings focus on organizational staff’s relationships with information and communication technologies (ICTs), both in the course of their daily work of delivering care work to vulnerable participants, as well as the project’s broader political goals to reduc…
Political science (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Open Source Software Innovations (3 works)