Christopher LeDantec, Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Ivan Allen College of the Liberal Arts, GA Tech
This project focuses on the ways digital media can empower people to share their voice gave participants in the English Avenue and Vine City neighborhoods iPhones with prompt cards for them to document (by GPS location, audio recordings, and pictures) places in their neighborhood. Examples of prompt cards are: “This will be missed.”,“This is a place to gather.”; “This should change.”; etc. This experience sheds light on parts of the neighborhood that tend to go unseen and creates a form of surveillance that is by the community and for the community.The first-round results were mapped and displayed at English Avenue’s Festival of Lights on October 13th, 2012 and generated new interest for the continuation of the project.