Community Technology Mapping: Inscribing Places When Everything Is on the Move

• In Event: 66.057 - Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 66.057-9 - Exploring Time, Place, and Space With Digital Media

Abstract

This paper describes a novel method- Community Technology Mapping (CTM)- for studying how young children represent the spatial and temporal organization of their daily activities. As part of a digital ethnography of children’s media and technology use at home, researchers designed a task in which children used Google Earth to map places they spend time using technology. What emerged in the task has pedagogical and methodological implications for how we can “see” and understand children’s perspectives on places, particularly as these places are re-mediated by new GIS technologies. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how children made their places visible and coherent, and in doing so, how they mobilized and re-inscribed the sociotechnical apparatus underlying the CTM task.

Authors

• Deborah Silvis, University of Washington - Seattle

• Katie Headrick Taylor, University of Washington - Seattle