From her story, to our story: Digital storytelling as public engagement around abortion rights advocacy in Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorMichie, Lydia
dc.contributor.authorBalaam, Madeline
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, John
dc.contributor.authorOsadchiy, Timur
dc.contributor.authorMorrissey, Kellie
dc.contributor.funderEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-25T10:27:44Z
dc.date.available2018-04-25T10:27:44Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractDespite the divisive nature of abortion within the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, where access to safe, legal abortion is severely restricted, effecting legislative reform demands widespread public support. In light of a building pro-choice counter-voice, this work contributes to a growing body of HCI research that takes an activist approach to design. We report findings from four design workshops with 31 pro-choice stakeholders across Ireland in which we positioned an exploratory protosite, HerStoryTold, to engender critical conversations around the use of sensitive abortion narratives as a tool for engagement. Our analysis shows how digital storytelling can help reject false narratives and raise awareness of the realities of abortion laws. It suggests design directions to curate narratives that provoke empathy, foster polyvocality, and ultimately expand the engaged community. Furthermore, this research calls for designers to actively support community mobilization through providing 'stepping stones' to activism.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics at Newcastle University (EP/L016176/1))en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMichie, L., Balaam, M., McCarthy, J., Osadchiy, T. and Morrissey, K. (2018) 'From Her Story, to Our Story: Digital Storytelling as Public Engagement around Abortion Rights Advocacy in Ireland', CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC, Canada, 21-26 April, ACM NY, USA, Paper No. 357 (15pp). doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173931en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3173574.3173931
dc.identifier.endpage357-15en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4503-5620-6
dc.identifier.journaltitleCHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systemsen
dc.identifier.startpage357-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5870
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, ACMen
dc.relation.isreplacedbyhttps://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3173574.3173931
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/EPSRC/EP/L016176/1/GB/EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics/en
dc.rights© 2018 the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectHuman-centered computingen
dc.subjectDigital storytellingen
dc.subjectFeminist HCIen
dc.subjectActivismen
dc.subjectStorytellingen
dc.subjectReproductive rightsen
dc.subjectSocial movementsen
dc.titleFrom her story, to our story: Digital storytelling as public engagement around abortion rights advocacy in Irelanden
dc.typeConference itemen
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