Participatory Media

A master in City Planning thesis defense by Danielle Martin »
Danielle Martin

1 . participatory action projects w/ reflective practice
2. full narrative 
3. critical facilitation events 
4. org culture framework & key for coding events
5. code events then look for patterns
6. compared timelines to develop description of a 
Participatory Media & Collaborative Facilitation
How can organizations use participatory media tools 
to build the capacity to support member participation?
Charlestown, MA
2002
Background
Key Concepts:
Organizational Culture 
and Learning
Youth Development 
    >> Youth Organizing
Participatory 
Media
from supporting individual 
to collective benefit through action
play
constructionism
claims making
collaborative
power building
from consumer to producer
produsage
collaboration
user-led
iterative (unfinished)
fluid roles
?
Developing Tools for Aligning Values to Practice in Organizations
MIT MCP Thesis Defense 8/4/09
Danielle Martin
Methodology
core assumptions:
Steps:
alignment values to action >> shared understanding >> participation
learning & practice improved through iterations of reflection
facilitation strategy
What's causing "distance"?
YouthBuild
Lawrence
Analysis
Epilogue
When I facilitate the adoption of participatory media, how can I:
spark individual voice and participation, 
create critical moments to reflect on an organization’s culture, and
transform how the organization learns and adapts?
?
8 youth in special bi-weekly 1-2 hour sessions for 1 semester
1. hands-on community organizing training
2. new media tools to hone voice and call for local change

campaign to stop local pollution of community spaces:
citizen signed petition 
a photomap of littered alleyways
video commercial
16 youth in 1 month long track in camp program pilot project for an “afterschool” expansion

Kathegala Khanaja (Trans-media Story-Bank) 

4 group puppet stories = hand-made puppets, scripts, and digitally animated sets.  

documentation of process on private social network
Prologue
Drishya
Bangalore
Young Activists Network

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