Open AccessCollaborative App-Making as a Research Method
Author(s) -
Samuel Collins,
Matthew Slover Durington,
Candace Everette,
Jamya Anderson,
Kirtsen Foseca,
Jakayla Holmes,
Ca’Syah Watkins
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
engage!
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2641-5348
DOI - 10.18060/24384
Subject(s) - gentrification , sociology , perspective (graphical) , community engagement , local community , mobile apps , process (computing) , center (category theory) , media studies , public relations , visual arts , political science , computer science , art , world wide web , engineering , chemistry , civil engineering , law , crystallography , operating system
This article details a community engagement project involving mobile app technology to create a walking tour of a Baltimore neighborhood. Greenmount West is an historically African American community in Baltimore City that is now experiencing rapid gentrification. After receiving a “mash up” grant from a local museum, researchers were partnered with the director of a local community center and created the idea to create a walking tour through the perspective of youth. In this case, four Black young women who shared their perspectives on their changing neighborhood and were involved in every facet of producing the tour. The article provides a step by step process for how to use this particular technology as a form of community engagement and research.