TY - JOUR AU - Balyasnikova, Natalia AU - James, Kedrick PY - 2021/04/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - PhoneMe Poetry: Mapping Community in the Digital Age JF - Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning JA - ESJ VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Reports from the Field DO - 10.15402/esj.v6i2.69984 UR - https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/69984 SP - 107-134 AB - <p>In this paper we explore how place-based poetry mediated online enabled community self-representation. Located in the urban core of a large cosmopolitan Canadian city, the PhoneMe project brought together academic researchers and community members into a collaborative educational creative space. Community members created poems about specific places within their neighbourhood, dialed a designated phone number, and recorded the poem by leaving a voice message. Upon receiving the message, the academic team geotagged it on an interactive map, uploaded the poem’s text, featured a Google Streetview image of the location, and shared the post via social media. As the result, a new vision for this distinctive physical space emerged and reached the wider audiences via engagement with the poetic digital media.</p> ER -