The Use of Social Media in Facilitating Participatory Design: A Case Study of Classroom Design

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Author(s): Fatimah Alsaif (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)and Brenda Vale (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 27
Source title: Optimizing E-Participation Initiatives Through Social Media
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Laura Alcaide-Muñoz (University of Granada, Spain)and Francisco José Alcaraz-Quiles (University of Granada, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5326-7.ch009

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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This chapter examines the effectiveness of using social media as an aid to primary school students participating in the design of their classroom interior layout. It describes two different attempts to do this that achieved varying degrees of success. Where a blog and Facebook page were set up to provide a virtual space for classroom design to happen, and despite teachers' expressed enthusiasm for involving students in the design of their classroom layout, very few participants resulted. However, one school successfully used the virtual space to show the work of the children and this example is described in the chapter. Social media was of more use in a second example where it formed an additional channel of communication between the researcher in the role of architect and the students. However, here it built on face-to-face communication, suggesting social media can aid in participatory design but is not a substitute for the latter.

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