Mobile Voices

Mobile Voices

Mobile Voices, a participatory project which has created a Drupal-based digital storytelling platform for first-generation, low-wage migrant workers in Los Angeles, allowing them to create and publish stories about their communities directly from their mobile phones.

Speaker:
Charlotte Lapsansky is a PhD Candidate and American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Charlotte has a background in development communication and mass media campaigns addressing gender and health in India. At Annenberg, her research interests include communication for social change.

In this talk, Charlotte will describe the Mobile Voices project and discuss key themes that have arisen for the Mobile Voices project team, including participatory technology design, community digital storytelling, and digital inclusion through mobile-phone based platforms. She will then describe the key technological and social issues that have arisen in the process of adapting Mobile Voices for India and the opportunities and challenges this presents.

Where:
Centre for Internet and Society No. 194, Second ‘C’ Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage Bangalore City, India

When:

Thursday Sep 16, 2010 · 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Why on Thursday?
Speaker is available on that day only!

No Entry Fee

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