New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.

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ARIS Platform
Saturday, October 15, 2:00 p.m. Theresa Lang Student and Community Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Participation in digital spaces and virtual communities is generally not a homogenous practice, reflecting geographically bounded social contexts, politics and ethics. This panel incorporates both discussion and demonstration of applications and tools that have been developed to enable people to participate in localized or community-based forms of activism, policy development and collaborative learning. In discussing the affordances and ambitions of these tools, panelists seek to contribute to and critique constructions of participation and access and highlight potential appropriations and shifting definitions of these categories. The panelists share an interest in seeing participation as activism, participation as learning, and participation as having policy implications. The extent to which these talks are based on existing applications and tools is in keeping with an emphasis on the application of theory to learning, specifically in ways that extend beyond the classroom to include the creation and critique of policy, public records, institutionalized knowledge, and the production of DIY archives. David Gagno (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Nathan Graham (Rutgers University) Germaine Halegoua (University of Kansas) Jessa Lingel (Rutgers University)

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