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2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing (VLHCC'04)
pp. 296-298
Creating Digital Places for Culture and Community
Ramesh Srinivasan, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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This abstract discusses my doctoral research at the Harvard Design School. The focus of my research is the creation of an active, living archive as a digital place for communities that have been neglected as a function of traditional dynamics of the digital divide. This research is focused around a set of Kumeyaay Native American communities based in the San Diego region of Southern California. I discuss the mechanism of collecting, structuring, and disseminating video, audio, and image-based narratives and artifacts that are submitted by community members. In particular, I discuss my hypothesis that an intelligently designed web infrastructure that employs a proactive agent can provide communities with the ability to archive cultural information, expand their social networks, and engage in important processes of communication that may be currently lacking as a result of existing dynamics. My contribution lies in the creation of an active and sustainable archive of contemporary and historical Kumeyaay culture that can be co-designed by these communities.
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Ramesh Srinivasan,
"Creating Digital Places for Culture and Community,"
vlhcc,
pp. 296-298,
2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing (VLHCC'04),
2004
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