Civics (May) Readings

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Let's use the top level of this issue to refine our list of readings and theme description

Theme:

Provisional Reading list:

• [something on "civic" as concept -- or more like "civil society"]
• Paul Frazee Information Civics
• [something to trouble civic vs. citizen vs. community]
• OPTIONAL Johnson, P., & Robinson, P. (2014). Civic hackathons: Innovation, procurement, or civic engagement?. Review of Policy Research, 31(4), 349-357. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ropr.12074 -- Intro, Conclusion, skim the rest

Dump of our previous notes:

• Plato: Republic (selection) … and other essential foundational readings on the topic of civics
• Digital Civics
• Paul Frazee on “Information Civics”
• Civic vs. citizen vs. community

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Digital Civics

• magazine article: Olivier, P., & Wright, P. (2015). Digital civics: taking a local turn. interactions, 22(4), 61-63. download :page_facing_up:
• paper: Boehner, K., & DiSalvo, C. (2016, May). Data, Design and civics: an exploratory study of civic tech. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2970-2981). ACM. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2858326
• paper: Asad, M., & Le Dantec, C. A. (2015, February). Illegitimate civic participation: supporting community activists on the ground. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1694-1703). ACM. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2675156

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Civic Tech

• Matt Stempeck and Micah L. Sifry Knowledge from failure: learnings from the Civic Tech Field Guide watch video :movie_camera:
• Liz Barry, vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy https://civichall.org/civicist/vtaiwan-democracy-frontier/
• Navigating the field of civic tech: A guide for newcomers and explorers https://medium.com/tradecraft-traction/navigating-the-field-of-civic-tech-c1f9670c8f69
• :hot_pepper: Johnson, P., & Robinson, P. (2014). Civic hackathons: Innovation, procurement, or civic engagement?. Review of Policy Research, 31(4), 349-357. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ropr.12074

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Troubling Civic, Citizen, Community

• Nyers, P. (2010). No one is illegal between city and nation. Studies in social justice, 4(2), 127. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/998
• http://nooneisillegal.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_one_is_illegal
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/06/illegal-immigrant-label-offensive-wrong-activists-say
• Something about how community as a term is meaningless: https://www.janefriedman.com/community-platform/
• Selection from Dewey -- public and its problems

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Civic as a Concept

• Iseult Honohan, Civic Republicanism looks somewhat interesting

• Costa, "Rawlsian Civic Education", _Journal of Applied Philosophy" 21:1 2004

• Stanford Enc. of Phil, "Civic Education"

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Syllabus on "Civic Studies" seems interesting: https://peterlevine.ws/?p=13298 Some potentials?

• John Dewey, The Public and its Problems, Chapter 5, “Search for the Great Community.” (too far?)
• Myles Horton and Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking, pp. 115-138
• Jean L. Cohen, “American Civil Society Talk,” in Robert K. Fullinwider, ed., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal, pp. 55-85 <-- maybe the closest? or this intro from the book of Cohen's: "Civil Society and Political Theory By Jean L. Cohen, Andrew Arato"

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Using the term "civil society" might be easier:

• http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398571.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195398571-e-1
• https://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/civil-society
• Ehrenberg, J. 1999. Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea. New York: NYU Press.