Vóces Moviles (VozMob) is a university-community partnership between the University of Southern California and IDEPSCA (Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California) that connects low-wage immigrant day laborers in Los Angeles with popular communication practitioners, university researchers, and open source software developers. Together, they design, deploy and use a low-cost, mobile, multimedia platform that promotes everyday sharing and dialogue. Through Voces Móviles, immigrant workers become citizen journalists, sharing, creating, and publishing multimedia stories directly from their mobile phones. These stories represent their own experiences, perspectives, and ideas. Voces Móviles allows other communities to create their own storytelling networks so that future uses of the platform may expand the possibilities of collaboration, dialogue and cultural understanding.
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VozMob in the news:
- Research: Mobile Technology Raises Civic Engagement
- MobileActive.org: Developing a Citizen Media Platform
- MobileActive.org: Mobile Voices: Creating a Voice for Day Laborers
- PBS MediaShift Idea Lab: How Mobile Voices Enables Day Laborers to Tell Their Stories
- PBS MediaShift Idea Lab: Mobile Voices and the Ethical Responsibilities of Citizen Journalism Training
- NetSquared N2Y4 Mobile Challenge
- USC Annenberg News: Mobile Voices wins UN information technology award
- Los Angeles Times: Giving immigrant laborers an online voice
- Mobile Monday: Mobile Voices
- Restore Fairness: A story a day should keep enforcement away
- NPR: Digital Revolution in Your Hand
- Mobile Voices: Participatory Action Research for Mobile Community Among Immigrants in Los Angeles
