The digital environment has opened up new opportunities for fans to engage with the production process of their favoured texts. The successful Kickstarter campaigns for Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell’s Veronica Mars film and Zach Braff’s film Wish I Was Here, and the failed Kickstarter campaign for Melissa Joan Hart’s film Darci’s Walk of Shame, each illustrate how the entertainers drew (or did no...

Under the background of many non-profit organizations to investigate a study via participatory working methohd, and taking anti-poverty practice of Sichuan rural development organization, a non-profit organization with nearly 15-year-old history, as an example, main factors affecting the performance of their participatory working methods were analyzed by factor analysis method. The results show...

In this paper we reflect on how to teach methods used in participatory design (PD) to graduate students. We describe a course concept that has proved very successful both in terms of student satisfaction and course results during the last years. Lectures introduce the concept of PD and a wide variety of participatory methods for analysis and design; exercises prepared and facilitated by small g...

Participatory design, a method by which system users and stakeholders meaningfully contribute to the development of a new process or technology, has great potential to revolutionize healthcare technology, yet has seen limited adoption. We conducted a design session with eleven physicians working to create a novel clinical information tool utilizing participatory design methods. During the two-h...

This systematic literature review aimed to ascertain what participatory methods for young children have been used in peer-reviewed empirical articles. A search yielded 75 Based on their methodology, the studies were divided into six categories: (1) multi-method and Mosaic approach, (2) observation ethnography, (3) language-based methods, (4) visual (5) creative playful (6) as co-researchers. Th...

• Participation by civil society in public expenditure management promises to improve social and economic outcomes while increasing confidence in public institutions. • Participatory budgeting (PB) programmes depend on the effective engagement of three key domestic stakeholders: governments, civil society and legislatures. Participatory budgeting cannot be imposed. • The successful execution of...

Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research by putting control into hands subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between desire for researcher-control and prerogative community action in participatory methods. How can researchers committed manage this tension? In paper, we draw on concepts “collaborativ...