ABSTRACT
In her chapter, “Pop-Up Public: Participatory Design for Civic Storytelling,” ross describes her work combining a design class at the University of California Davis with her efforts on behalf of Capital Public Radio, the NPR affiliate station in Sacramento, to build tighter connections between the station and local communities often left out of the media discourse in the region. Her chapter explicitly engages speculative participatory interventions into a form of legacy media – public radio – that build upon earlier feminist methods and commitments while integrating new approaches gleaned from design thinking. The mobile storytelling van ross proposes grows out of her significant experience with international networks of media training and community-based work, merging the necessity for in-person, location-specific efforts with the possibilities of mediated communication.
