Mobile Voices ("VozMob" http://vozmob.net) is an academic-community partnership between the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (http://annenberg.usc.edu/) and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA - http://idepsca.org) to research and design a platform for low- wage immigrants in Los Angeles to publish stories about their lives and their communities directly from their mobile phones.

This low-cost, open source, customizable, and easy to deploy multimedia mobile storytelling platform is being designed in collaboration with its users to help recent immigrants who lack computer access gain greater participation in the digital public sphere. In parallel, our research team is studying and documenting participatory approaches to building and deploying low-cost new media, exploring how storytelling helps community building and organizing, and investigating how emerging media tools can best be leveraged to promote digital inclusion and assist marginalized groups.

For more information about this project visit: vozmob.net