Papers by Monica Garriga Miret
Global Information Society (GIS) Watch 2016: economic, cultural and social rights and the internet, 2016
CitizenSqKm1 (Km2 del Poblenou) is an experiment which builds a complex communicative ecology usi... more CitizenSqKm1 (Km2 del Poblenou) is an experiment which builds a complex communicative ecology using a technological platform and serves as a methodology for community engagement. Several pilot projects have been conducted in Barcelona, aimed at finding out how geolocation technologies and community networks can be used, from local to global levels, to help increase civic engagement. The initiative involves connecting an online platform with a map to a community telecommunications network.2 This allows people to make an inventory of “the things” in their neighbourhood, including institutions, services, historical landmarks and natural surroundings. The information is classified by author, source and topic. This process of “civic reappropriation of data” engages citizens in the development of their own community.
Anyone who has a mobile device connected to the internet can create, collect, process and share massive amounts of data widely, “geolocatedly” and in real time. Having this possibility, now with the ubiquitous attributes of digitised media, citizens can regain ownership over that data, particularly if they can access it through an open, free and neutral community network.3 “Open” means anyone can be a user, connect to the network and understand how it works; “free” means it is unrestricted; and “neutral” refers to content and the technology used – for example, internet service providers (ISPs) should not favour specific kinds of internet traffic over others.
Being empowered to decide on the collection, use and storage of data may involve several economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs) for citizens, such as the right to information, food, housing, education, the benefits of science and technology, health, security, cultural life, water and sanitation, and work
Mònica Garriga Miret is an independent professional, currently developing Teixidora to create collective narratives. Previously she codesigned, developed and implemented the CitizenSqKm project, exploring the use of mobile and GIS technologies to foster transformation through education, local government and civic engagement. A Law graduate she is a former foreign correspondent, who specialised in Communications and Transmedia with the aim of looking into ways of using journalism/communication so that audiences can generate change themselves.
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This study focuses on the perceptions of the Hispanic community in Australia regarding the use of... more This study focuses on the perceptions of the Hispanic community in Australia regarding the use of the Australian Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) as a tool to develop the institutionalised philosophy of multiculturalism. How the audience and potential audience relate to SBS, one of the main tools developed towards this end and specifically SBS’s Spanish Radio Program. It also analyses how the broadcasters manage their resources with a view to promote the official notion
The research focuses on the relationship between the Hispanic community and SBS’s Spanish Radio Program by using perceptions from academics, policy makers and the broadcasters themselves; analysis of the actual contents of the programs and the perceptions from the audience and potential audience of the Program, gathered by the responses that 24 individuals related to the Hispanic Community in Australia give to a questionnaire.
It reveals that the audience or potential audience surveyed have difficulty in defining themselves as an ethnic community with identifiable and distinctive factors in common.
SBS is a tool for all Australians, interviewees say, then language programs should also be a tool for all Australians and as such they should be directed to all of them regardless of their place of birth, the place of birth of their ancestors, or the proficiency of their Spanish.
Australia is seen as a multicultural country ‘per se’; SBS as a tool for ‘multiculturalism’; and ‘multiculturalism’ as a philosophy or a policy for ‘cultural inclusiveness’ of all Australians. SBS’s Spanish Language Program should cater, then, to the needs of any person living in Australia.
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CitizenSqKm is a project currently based in the Barcelona neighborhood of Poblenou, which aims to... more CitizenSqKm is a project currently based in the Barcelona neighborhood of Poblenou, which aims to explore and extend the potentials of a community owned and managed telecommunications network. The project explores how community networks can increase civic engagement and benefit the citizens of the European Union more broadly.
In order to privilege the use of the community network, the project is devising a methodology to engage participants using educational and journalistic techniques. The project is developing a comprehensive evaluation and applied methodology of civic engagement using participatory media. Guided by the philosophy of community networks—principles emerging from the commons of open, free and a non-commodified network—this paper presents the design and development of a specific communication ecology and it’s impact on the community.
After reflecting on the existing literature concerning differing research methodologies, this paper will then present the considerations and choices we made in order to design a methodology specific to the context and which exceeds mere diagnosis, to enable actual social interventions. The methodology combines conventional digital methods with more recent participatory and qualitative evaluation methods, such as Ethnographic Action Research (EAR), and its variation, the Network Action Research (NAR), and the Most Significant Change (MSC)—methods currently being used to document the impact of information and communication technologies for transforming communities.
This project—despite being at the beginning stage— has already moved to identify and correct flaws in its methodology. And despite the fact that the emerging systematology appears solid, it is still premature to confirm solid results at this stage.
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Papers by Monica Garriga Miret
Anyone who has a mobile device connected to the internet can create, collect, process and share massive amounts of data widely, “geolocatedly” and in real time. Having this possibility, now with the ubiquitous attributes of digitised media, citizens can regain ownership over that data, particularly if they can access it through an open, free and neutral community network.3 “Open” means anyone can be a user, connect to the network and understand how it works; “free” means it is unrestricted; and “neutral” refers to content and the technology used – for example, internet service providers (ISPs) should not favour specific kinds of internet traffic over others.
Being empowered to decide on the collection, use and storage of data may involve several economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs) for citizens, such as the right to information, food, housing, education, the benefits of science and technology, health, security, cultural life, water and sanitation, and work
Mònica Garriga Miret is an independent professional, currently developing Teixidora to create collective narratives. Previously she codesigned, developed and implemented the CitizenSqKm project, exploring the use of mobile and GIS technologies to foster transformation through education, local government and civic engagement. A Law graduate she is a former foreign correspondent, who specialised in Communications and Transmedia with the aim of looking into ways of using journalism/communication so that audiences can generate change themselves.
The research focuses on the relationship between the Hispanic community and SBS’s Spanish Radio Program by using perceptions from academics, policy makers and the broadcasters themselves; analysis of the actual contents of the programs and the perceptions from the audience and potential audience of the Program, gathered by the responses that 24 individuals related to the Hispanic Community in Australia give to a questionnaire.
It reveals that the audience or potential audience surveyed have difficulty in defining themselves as an ethnic community with identifiable and distinctive factors in common.
SBS is a tool for all Australians, interviewees say, then language programs should also be a tool for all Australians and as such they should be directed to all of them regardless of their place of birth, the place of birth of their ancestors, or the proficiency of their Spanish.
Australia is seen as a multicultural country ‘per se’; SBS as a tool for ‘multiculturalism’; and ‘multiculturalism’ as a philosophy or a policy for ‘cultural inclusiveness’ of all Australians. SBS’s Spanish Language Program should cater, then, to the needs of any person living in Australia.
In order to privilege the use of the community network, the project is devising a methodology to engage participants using educational and journalistic techniques. The project is developing a comprehensive evaluation and applied methodology of civic engagement using participatory media. Guided by the philosophy of community networks—principles emerging from the commons of open, free and a non-commodified network—this paper presents the design and development of a specific communication ecology and it’s impact on the community.
After reflecting on the existing literature concerning differing research methodologies, this paper will then present the considerations and choices we made in order to design a methodology specific to the context and which exceeds mere diagnosis, to enable actual social interventions. The methodology combines conventional digital methods with more recent participatory and qualitative evaluation methods, such as Ethnographic Action Research (EAR), and its variation, the Network Action Research (NAR), and the Most Significant Change (MSC)—methods currently being used to document the impact of information and communication technologies for transforming communities.
This project—despite being at the beginning stage— has already moved to identify and correct flaws in its methodology. And despite the fact that the emerging systematology appears solid, it is still premature to confirm solid results at this stage.
Anyone who has a mobile device connected to the internet can create, collect, process and share massive amounts of data widely, “geolocatedly” and in real time. Having this possibility, now with the ubiquitous attributes of digitised media, citizens can regain ownership over that data, particularly if they can access it through an open, free and neutral community network.3 “Open” means anyone can be a user, connect to the network and understand how it works; “free” means it is unrestricted; and “neutral” refers to content and the technology used – for example, internet service providers (ISPs) should not favour specific kinds of internet traffic over others.
Being empowered to decide on the collection, use and storage of data may involve several economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs) for citizens, such as the right to information, food, housing, education, the benefits of science and technology, health, security, cultural life, water and sanitation, and work
Mònica Garriga Miret is an independent professional, currently developing Teixidora to create collective narratives. Previously she codesigned, developed and implemented the CitizenSqKm project, exploring the use of mobile and GIS technologies to foster transformation through education, local government and civic engagement. A Law graduate she is a former foreign correspondent, who specialised in Communications and Transmedia with the aim of looking into ways of using journalism/communication so that audiences can generate change themselves.
The research focuses on the relationship between the Hispanic community and SBS’s Spanish Radio Program by using perceptions from academics, policy makers and the broadcasters themselves; analysis of the actual contents of the programs and the perceptions from the audience and potential audience of the Program, gathered by the responses that 24 individuals related to the Hispanic Community in Australia give to a questionnaire.
It reveals that the audience or potential audience surveyed have difficulty in defining themselves as an ethnic community with identifiable and distinctive factors in common.
SBS is a tool for all Australians, interviewees say, then language programs should also be a tool for all Australians and as such they should be directed to all of them regardless of their place of birth, the place of birth of their ancestors, or the proficiency of their Spanish.
Australia is seen as a multicultural country ‘per se’; SBS as a tool for ‘multiculturalism’; and ‘multiculturalism’ as a philosophy or a policy for ‘cultural inclusiveness’ of all Australians. SBS’s Spanish Language Program should cater, then, to the needs of any person living in Australia.
In order to privilege the use of the community network, the project is devising a methodology to engage participants using educational and journalistic techniques. The project is developing a comprehensive evaluation and applied methodology of civic engagement using participatory media. Guided by the philosophy of community networks—principles emerging from the commons of open, free and a non-commodified network—this paper presents the design and development of a specific communication ecology and it’s impact on the community.
After reflecting on the existing literature concerning differing research methodologies, this paper will then present the considerations and choices we made in order to design a methodology specific to the context and which exceeds mere diagnosis, to enable actual social interventions. The methodology combines conventional digital methods with more recent participatory and qualitative evaluation methods, such as Ethnographic Action Research (EAR), and its variation, the Network Action Research (NAR), and the Most Significant Change (MSC)—methods currently being used to document the impact of information and communication technologies for transforming communities.
This project—despite being at the beginning stage— has already moved to identify and correct flaws in its methodology. And despite the fact that the emerging systematology appears solid, it is still premature to confirm solid results at this stage.