The Grassroots Radio project participated in the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction ( ’20), which took place virtually on October 25 – 29, 2020. The conference was supposed to be held in Tallin, but the organizing committee decided to move online due to the Covid-19’s...
Despite the restrictions caused by the pandemic, it’s been a lively summer for the Grassroots Radio project, which shaped several field and dissemination activities. One of them has been the participation in the 4S/EASST Conference – the joint meeting of the Society for Social Studies...
Grassroots Radio was present in the interactive workshop “Commoning Design and Designing Commons”, organized as part of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2020. The workshop aimed at understanding the relevance of the concepts of commons and commoning – as an objective to be pursued and...
Grassroots Radio keeps on achieving important results, this time in the academic domain with a paper accepted at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020. The paper is titled ““Human, All Too Human": NOAA Weather Radio and the Emotional Impact of Synthetic Voices”,...
Dr Nadia Pantidi, lecturer at School of Applied Psychology in University College Cork and co-investigator at the Grassroots Radio Project, was invited as a keynote speaker at the Internet Festival 2019 – which took place in Pisa (Italy) recently – as part of the event...
Grassroots Radio, with the RootIO free/open innovation, has joined the 20th Pixxelpoint - Festival of Contemporary Art Practices 2019, which is taking place in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in these days from 15 to 23 November. Pixxelpoint is a festival focused on the broad field of exploration...
Last week, Grassroots Radio has been presented at the Ethnographies of Collaborative Economi(es) Conference, which took place in Edinburgh (UK) on October 25, 2019. Mariacristina Sciannamblo (AMARC Europe) discussed the paper titled “Co-designing collaborative care work through ethnography”, co-authored with Roberto Cibin (M-ITI), Petra Žišt (M-ITI),...
Last week, Grassroots Radio was presented at the 6th Conference of the Radio Research Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Roberto Cibin, on behalf of various researchers involved in the project, presented a paper titled “Fostering Community Radio: the Grassroots Radio...
Last Thursday, June 6th, Grassroots Radio was in Wien at the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies. A paper regarding the activities the project's partners undertook to obtain the broadcasting license was presented to an audience of researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students with...