Presented at the Canadian Association of Planning Students Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, under the stream "Championing Creativity." (Slidecast forthcoming.) Conference website: http://caps-aceau.org/vancouver-2012

3. a) ESP
b) Headline
Service
c) Celebrity
catfight platform
d) All of the above
e) None of the
above

4. DIALOGUE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Greenest City Conversations Research Project
(http://gcc.ubc.ca)
• Digital engagement channels
Emergent dialogue
• Twitter as “digital backchannel” space
• Collaborative sense-making and meaning-making

5. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Question
Does emergent dialogue occur
during interactions
- between the case study
organization and the public?
- amongst members of the
public?
What factors shape how the
organizations use and understand
Twitter?

6. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Question Method
Does emergent dialogue occur Network analysis; content analysis
during interactions
- between the case study
organization and the public?
- amongst members of the
public?
What factors shape how the Case study (semi-structured
organizations use and understand interviews, documentary research)
Twitter?

7. COMMUNITY… AND PLANNING ENGAGEMENT?
“Ad-hoc” publics
Off-line community activity
Online activity as “everyday creativity”
Engagement = new media practices and organizations able
and willing to participate meaningfully

10. #PLANNERSTWEET
- Getting inspiration from other places (Nick Quinn)
- Dialogue from different perspectives and fields (Neal
LaMontagne); expanding civic conversation (Rob
Goodspeed)
- Community of practice: Asking questions, reading news,
keeping up with the practice (Daniella Fergusson)
- Participate in the ongoing conversation by using the tag
in tweets:
- http://twitter.com/search/plannerstweet

11. Karen Quinn Fung
e:
karen@counti8.c
a
t: @counti8
counti8.ca/caps2012