Civic Innovations and Digital Applications (CIDA)
The research project Civic Innovations and Digital Applications
(CIDA) produces empirically tested information on the social and
cultural effects of Manse Square (in Finnish Mansetori), a web
community originated in the city of Tampere in Finland. Several
civic innovations have emerged within the realm of Manse Square; as
an example, Manse Media can be mentioned, introducing local news
written by neighbourhood reporters in the Net. Simultaneously, new
digital applications have been developed to support the innovations;
for instance, a publishing system operating in the Linux
environment. The essential goal of the CIDA project is to analyse
and develop these novel forms of civic action emanated from Manse
Square as well as to assess how different groups of people view the
digital applications created to support the sense of communality.
Moreover, the project will produce internationally comparable
knowledge on the possibilities as well as on the limitations of
web-mediated civic publicness. The research is carried out by
Journalism Research and Development Centre, University of Tampere.
More information: Janne Seppänen, professor,
janne.seppanen@uta.fi, +358-3-215 7547.
Pauliina Lehtonen,
researcher, pauliina.lehtonen@uta.fi, +358-3-215 7955.
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