Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism

Sunil Rodger; John Vines; Janice McLaughlin

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858146

Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism

Sunil Rodger, John Vines, Janice McLaughlin

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Abstract

Digital technologies offer the possibility of community empowerment via the reconfiguration of public services. This potential relies on actively involved citizens engaging with decision makers to pursue civic goals. In this paper we study one such group of involved citizens, examining the evidencing practices of a rare disease charity campaigning for accessible public transport. Through fieldwork and interviews, we highlight the ways in which staff and volunteers assembled and presented different forms of evidence, in doing so reframing what is conceived as 'valid knowledge'. We note the challenges this group faced in capturing experiential knowledge around the accessibility barriers of public transport, and the trade-offs that are made when presenting evidence to policy and decision makers. We offer a number of design considerations for future HCI research, focusing on how digital technology might be configured more appropriately to support campaigning around the politics of mobility.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2417–2429
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9781450333627
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858146
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2016
Event	2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - San Jose, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

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Name	CHI '16
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery

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Conference	2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	7/05/16 → 12/05/16
Internet address	https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

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evidence
activism
participation
disability
accessible transport

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Rodger, S, Vines, J & McLaughlin, J 2016, Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism. in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '16, ACM Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 2417–2429, 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, California, United States, 7/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858146

Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism. / Rodger, Sunil; Vines, John; McLaughlin, Janice.

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA : ACM Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 2417–2429 (CHI '16).

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