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On the Web
- TDLC.com - Developer and host of a form of media called participatory texts, which are online educational interactive multimedia course materials with integrated communication features. Each participatory text is available by subscription, but a free trial is available.
- J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism - Active organization promoting the development, study and training of participatory journalists.
- Participatory Avenues - Promotes the diffusion of Participatory 3D Modeling (P3DM) as best practice in providing communities added stake in tailoring and owning integrated conservation and development initiatives.
- PPD - Promoting Participatory Development in the Arab World - Building up participatory and grass-roots development in Arab countries. Includes information and knowledge about participation and development, events, contacts, NGOs and networks across the Arab World.
- Participatory approaches - Website that aims to promote participation in development though a focus on Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) information exchange.
- Participatory Budgeting - Description of the participatory budgeting model used in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- Hypergene MediaBlog - Dealing with participatory journalism, and how audiences shape tomorrow's news. Written by media design consultants Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman.
- NowPublic - Vancouver-based platform for participatory news-gathering. Global posts of news, photos, and video.
- Resource Unit for Participatory Forestry - RUPFOR is a neutral multistakeholders' forum promoting interaction among various stakeholders in participatory forestry in India.
- QUALIA V: The Quantum Physics and Sociology of Participatory Democracy. - Father Jerome talks about spirituality and consciousness and relates Einsteinian principles to participatory democracy.
Wikipedia Articles
- Participatory Media - Participatory Media include (but aren't limited to) blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging and social bookmarking, music-photo-video sharing, mashups, podcasts, participatory video projects and videoblogs. These distinctly different media share three common, interrelated characteristics:
- Participatory epistemology - Participatory Epistemology is a relatively new philosophical concept, paradigmatically articulated by Richard Tarnas and elaborated specifically in relation to transpersonal psychology by Jorge Ferrer, Christopher Bache, and others. Participatory epistemology is constituted in the recognition that meaning is neither outside of the human mind, that is, in the "objective" world waiting to be discovered (the paradigmatically modern/structuralist worldview), nor that meaning is simply constructed or projected onto an inherently meaningless world by the "subjective" human ...
- Participatory cinema - Participatory cinema tries to involve cinema viewers in the process of making movies. The organizers of participatory cinema open up cinema showings and the cinema production process for non professionals.
- Participatory theatre - Participatory theatre is a form of theatre in which the audience interacts with the performers or the presenters. Classroom exercises often include elements of participatory theatre.
- Participatory economics - Participatory economics, often abbreviated parecon, is a proposed economic system that uses participatory decision making as an economic mechanism to guide the production, consumption and allocation of resources in a given society. Proposed as an alternative to contemporary capitalist market economies and also an alternative to centrally planned socialism or coordinatorism, it is described as "an anarchistic economic vision"Albert, ...