Design of Digital Democracies Performances of Citizenship, Gender and IT

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Design of Digital Democracies Performances of
Citizenship, Gender and IT

• Pirjo Elovaara (Blekinge Institute of
  Technology, Sweden)
• Christina Mörtberg (Luleå University of
  Technology, Sweden/University of Oslo, Norway)

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Invitation

• Welcome to an experiment where voices of
  policies, people and technologies meet

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Our guides

• ANT
• Parliament of things (Latour)
• Feminist technoscience Haraways cyborg and
  accountability

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Sociotechnical arenas of our experiment

• Location Sweden
• The stage
• IT-policies dreams and visions of
• re-vitalization democracy
• by information technology (IT)
• by active citizens

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Citizenship?

• To be a citizen the rights approach/equal
  access
• To act as a citizen - the obligation approach
• IT-policies traces of these approaches?
• IT-policies a unified notion of citizenship
  and/or space for more complex understandings?
  (Lister, Mouffe)

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Three sessions of the parliament of things

• Authentic recordings
• 1. Session conversation between a citizen and
  The National Swedish Insurance Board website
• 2. Session conversation between the Swedish
  Government and the technology appointed by the
  Swedish government
• 3. Session conversation between a citizen and
  the Internet technology

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The first session of the parliament of things

• Other materials from the session the latest
  IT-policies
• Dreams of citizenship in the IT policies
• Access
• old dreams
• new dreams

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The second session

• Other materials from the session latest
  IT-policies local experiments
• Citizens as actors

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The third session..

• Other materials from the session local projects
• Situated and local agencies of citizens

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Dreamweaving

• 1 Amplifying representative democracy and
  citizenship
• 2 Gender (equality)
• 3 Rebels

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Comments

• Loving and caring state but in transformation
• Citizenship consumers, clients and individuals
  expressions of participatory democracy?
• Situated citizenship?
• Cyborg hopeful but trustful?
• Artful integration? prudence