Since 2004, megafone.net has been inviting groups of people on the fringes of society to express their experiences and opinions through face-to-face meetings and mobile phones. The phones, which allow participants’ audio recordings, video and photography to be published immediately on the web, act as digital megaphones, amplifying the voices of communities that are often overlooked or misrepresented in the mainstream media.
Four of these projects were conducted by blind people with impaired mobility who used telephones with GPS to photograph and publish the obstacles and architectural barriers found in the street, while drawing in real time on the web an accessibility map of their respective cities.
Four of these projects were conducted by blind people with impaired mobility who used telephones with GPS to photograph and publish the obstacles and architectural barriers found in the street, while drawing in real time on the web an accessibility map of their respective cities.
