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Making sense of imbrication: popular technology and "inside-out" methodologies

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We describe a model popular technology education program based on feminist and Freirian principles. Participatory design and research methodologies that position facilitators and participants as co-producers were the basis for a series of collective research projects, which we then analyze for their contribution to the field of participatory design. Finally, we suggest that the democratization of technological citizenship can be best extended not through narrowly construed "technology training" programs but through "popular technology," an empowering and visionary combination of popular education and participatory research and design that emphasizes critical technological literacy.

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    PDC 04: Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices - Volume 1
    July 2004
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