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Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design

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Technology-powered civic networks are social constructions that develop in relation to a particular macrostructure (meaning social structure, here referring to historically-constituted relational patterns among social positions).

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Venkatesh, M., Owens, J.S. (2009). Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design. In: Carroll, J.M. (eds) Learning in Communities. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-332-3_10

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