mobile voices - lirneasia
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Mobile VoicesOpen‐source storytelling platform for immigrants in
Los Angeles to create and publish stories about their
community, directly from
mobile phones
cheapintuitiveany phoneany networkprivateour waymulti‐lingualmulti‐country www.vozmob.net
community partner and users
“day laborer”
google search
“Do you really want this in your neighborhood? Day Laborers site in Farmingville, Long Island, NY
Photograph courtesy of Dave Drew”
day laborers on
the internet
who are day laborers?
Mobile Voices was created to “give voice to the voiceless”
theoretical framework• Freire (1970/2003) -
education as
conscientization for the purpose of individual and collective transformation
• ICT4D (Heeks, 2007, 2008; Ramirez, 2007)
• Communication for Social Change (Gumucio- Dragon & Tufte, 2006)
• Participatory Design/Research (Al-Kodmany, 2001; Dart & Davies, 2003; Viswanathan et al., 2004)
participatory learning goals• Media literacy
– Citizen journalists representing their own reality
• Technological literacy– Mastering phone features; using an online
platform/blogging; video editing
• New forms of public participation– Civic engagement, collective action
mobile phone survey at day laborer centers
what do they use their phones for?
what features do they use?
participatory prototyping
Weekly workshops with members of the
popular communication team
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tell the story voice‐mail radio
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show it. photo‐reporting
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pictures and sound slide shows
‐movies
Storytelling –
with mobiles
Storytelling: say it.
Voicemail – to –blogGcast ‐> RSS call 1‐888‐65‐GCAST (888‐654‐2278); a voice will ask you for the number
of the phone you registered with; enter 888‐8‐VOZMOB (888‐886‐
9662); it will ask you for a 4 digit pin; enter 8888 record something.
then press # [all in english].
Gizmo ‐> email ‐> drupalone number, message in Spanish, post to blog
Storytelling: narrated stories
participants’
voices
• Feeling empowered to tell their own stories in contrast to the mainstream media’s distortions/omissions
• “We want to become visible. From invisible to visible. From voiceless to people that scream.”
participants’
voices• Zamoran:
“Mobile phones are a created necessity, but one that can be useful for other purposes….”
“I always say that I work on a project … and that this project is to make the
voiceless heard”
participants’
voices• Mancia:
“Before participating in the project I had no idea that I could do so many things with my phone, and that’s the case among 90% of the population--most people carry their phones and don’t know what they are useful for.”
participants’
voices• Mancia:
“One of the main goals of this project is to keep learning and to keep teaching…
we must always ask ourselves what we are and what we are doing for our
community”
system features
Uploads from phone‐
cheap: any phone, pre‐paid,
MMS bundles‐ easy: voice, text, mms
Content management system‐ customizable: open source‐multimedia: voice, text, pictures...‐ private: strip identifiable info
editexpandtagtranslatesubtitlelocatere‐usepersonal pages
Universal design‐multiple outputs‐many inputs?
http://prueba.vozmob.net
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sandbox test site
http://blog.vozmob.net
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research blog
http://wiki.vozmob.net
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project wiki
http://class.vozmob.net
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USC class wiki
http://tags.vozmob.net
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del.icio.us tags for ‘vozmob’
http://list.vozmob.net
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project mailing list
http://devlist.vozmob.net
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development mailing list archive
http://dev.vozmob.net/projects/show/vozmob
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bugs, features requests
http://code.vozmob.net
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code repository
irc: http://irc.freenode.net
#vozmob
creditsvozmob teamSteve Anderson, Murali Annavaram, François Bar, Melissa Brough, Mark Burdett,
Adolfo Cisneros, Sasha Costanza‐Chock, Pedro Espinosa, Amanda Garces, Maria
De Lourdes Gonzalez, Carmen Gonzales, Chris Guitarte, Josh Haglund, Philip
Javellana, Crispin Jimenez, Charlotte Lapsansky, Manuel Mancia, Gabriela
Rodriguez, Marcos Rodriguez, Yazmin Trujillo‐Arevalo, Cara Wallis
fundingAnnenberg Program on Online Communities
(APOC)MacArthur FoundationNokia Research CenterSocial Science Research Council
(SSRC)
graphicsadapted from originals by Rini Templeton (riniart.org)http://vozmob.net