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Mobile Technology and Civic Engagement: Heuristics and Practices for Developing Mobile Applications for Social and Civic Change

Coffey, Kathleen M
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0457-4699
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408123367

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2014, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Many different non-profit organizations, companies, government groups, and individual developers have built hundreds of mobile applications aimed at improving environmental issues in communities, helping people change their actions and behaviors towards the environment, or raising awareness regarding environmental concerns. Applications supporting the environment are just some in a larger category of applications built to serve social and civic change. Although these applications are developed and designed with the best of intentions, oftentimes the standard usability practices and heuristics used to develop these applications do not accommodate the complexities surrounding applications for social and civic change. Therefore, this thesis uses qualitative research practices, interviews with developers and mobile action research with users, to build new research practices and heuristics for those developing user-focused mobile applications for social and civic change.
Michele Simmons (Committee Chair)
Jason Palmeri (Committee Member)
James Porter (Committee Member)
107 p.
Composition; Rhetoric; Technical Communication
mobile technology; usability; civic engagement; rhetoric; composition; technical communication; professional writing; technology; mobile applications; mobile application; environmentalism

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  • Coffey, K. M. (2014). Mobile Technology and Civic Engagement: Heuristics and Practices for Developing Mobile Applications for Social and Civic Change [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408123367

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Coffey, Kathleen. Mobile Technology and Civic Engagement: Heuristics and Practices for Developing Mobile Applications for Social and Civic Change. 2014. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408123367.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Coffey, Kathleen. "Mobile Technology and Civic Engagement: Heuristics and Practices for Developing Mobile Applications for Social and Civic Change." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408123367

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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