Publications

2026

Forthcoming

How Institutions Listen: Civic Data, AI, and the Path to Public Trust

Eric Gordon

MIT Press

2020

Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency

Eric Gordon & Gabriel Mugar

Oxford University Press

2011

Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World

Eric Gordon & Adriana de Souza e Silva

Blackwell Publishers

2010

The Urban Spectator: American Concept-cities from Kodak to Google

Eric Gordon

Dartmouth College Press

2021

Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry

Eric Gordon & V. Rapti (Eds.)

Palgrave-Macmillan

2016

Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice

Eric Gordon & Paul Mihailidis (Eds.)

MIT Press

2025

Critical Collaboration in the Classroom: Sharing Power in the Co-Creation Process

DelSesto, M., Gardner, R., et al. & Gordon, E.

Innovative Higher Education

DOI

2024

Collaborative Critical Making in Higher Education

Gordon, E., Gardner, R., Sacks, C., Chery, C., Masiakos, P.

CoDesign

DOI

2024

What is Next for Civic Design

Gordon, E.

Design for a Complex World. London: Routledge

DOI

2024

Data Discretion: Screen-Level Bureaucrats and Municipal Decision-Making

Gordon, E., Harlow, J., Whitman, S., Lee, M.

Digital Government: Research and Practice

DOI

2023

Applied Visual Art for Codesign: A Framework for Integrating Collaboratively Produced Artworks

Gardner, R., Sacks, C. & Gordon, E.

International Journal of Art and Design Education

DOI

2021

Towards a Collaborative Smart City: A play-based urban living laboratory in Boston

Gordon, E., Harlow, J., Cristoforetti, E. and Teng, M.

International Journal of Human Computer Interaction

DOI

2021

Therapeutic Virtual Reality in Prison: Participatory design with incarcerated women

Teng, M. and Gordon, E.

New Media and Society

DOI

2019

The Practice of Civic Tech: Tensions in the Adoption and Use of New Technologies

Gordon, E., Harlow, J., Baldwin-Philippi, J., Balestra, M.

Media and Communication

DOI

2017

Civic Creativity: Role-Playing Games in Deliberative Process

Gordon, E., Haas, J., & Michelson, B.

International Journal of Communication

DOI

2014

Playful Civic Learning: Enabling Lateral Trust and Reflection in Game-based Public Participation

Gordon, E. and Baldwin-Philippi, J.

International Journal of Communication

DOI

2011

Immersive Planning: A Conceptual Model for Designing Public Participation with New Technologies

Gordon, E., Schirra, S. and Hollander, J.

Environment and Planning B

DOI

2010

Augmented Deliberation: Merging Physical and Virtual Interaction to Engage Communities in Urban Planning

Gordon, E. and Manosevitch, E.

New Media and Society

DOI

2021

Palace of the Mind: an Essay on Play and Learning

Gordon, E.

Transformative Media Pedagogies:

2021

Civic Tech / Gov Tech

Gordon, E.

The Palgrave Encylopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Public Affairs

2019

Beta Blocks: Inviting Playful Community Exploration of Smart City Technologies in Boston, USA

Peacock, S., Harlow, J., Gordon, E.

Making Smart Cities More Playable

2019

Meaningful inefficiencies: Resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems

Gordon, E., Walter, S.

The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture

2025

Making AI Work for the Public: An ALT Perspective

Kleiman, N., Gordon, E., Garcia, M.

New America Foundation Report