New forms of community technologies are focused on supporting local, geographically connected communities directly through neighborhoods and civic activity. The workshop will address the following questions: What constitutes participation in community settings and how is it supported/augmented through IT? How do we understand the relationships between participation, community and technology in these (emerging) settings? It will be based on examples of technology supported participatory publics brought to the workshop by participants.

• Olav W. Bertelsen, Centre for Participatory IT & Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Susanne Bødker, Centre for Participatory IT & Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Martin Brynskov, Centre for Participatory IT & Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Christopher A. Le Dantec, Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
• Anne Marie Kanstrup, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany

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