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The Magic Sauce: Practices of Facilitation in Online Policy Deliberation [PDF]
Online engagement in policy deliberation is one of the more complex aspects of open government. Previous research on human facilitation of policy deliberation has focused primarily on the citizens who need facilitation.
Dmitry Epstein, Gilly Leshed
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Democratic governments frequently use online tools to include large numbers of citizens in participation processes. Against the backdrop of deliberative theories, such initiatives are subject to normative needs.
Dennis Friess, Katharina Esau
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Measuring Deliberation’s Content: A Coding Scheme
This paper details a content analysis scheme to measure the quality of political deliberation in face-to-face and online groups. Much of deliberation research studies the outcomes of deliberation, but there has been a lack of analysis of what groups ...
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
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Experimenting LiquidFeedback for Online Deliberation in Civic Contexts [PDF]
The growing distrust in political institutions is accompanied by new opportunities for civic involvement through online technological platforms. LiquidFeedback is one of the most interesting, as it embeds innovative features to support online deliberative processes.
F. De Cindio, S. Stortone
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Perception and Attitude Changes of Stakeholders for Resilient City Policy by Online Deliberation
The aim of this study is to clarify the stakeholders' perceptions and attitudes of climate change adaptation in disaster prevention, which is one of the essential factors to make cities resilient, with the expert knowledge and discussion with each other ...
Kenshi Baba, Eri Amanuma, Asako Iwami
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This paper provides a big-data-scale assessment of the deliberative qualities of online abortion discussions on Twitter in the United States (2020) and Ireland (2018) by specifically focusing on two standards: civility and tolerance for constructive ...
Dayei Oh, Martin Sykora, Suzanne Elayan
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From Protest to Political Parties: Online Deliberation in New Parties in Spain
The new parties that emerged following the 15-M movement and against the austerity measures in Spain want to build parties open to the participation and deliberation for all the citizenry. To what extent are these ideals being fulfilled?
Rosa Borge Bravo +1 more
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Deliberating Issues or Discharging Feelings? A Closer Look at “Below-the-Line” Reader Comments on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute [PDF]
The study addresses a concern over the quality of online news reader comments. Specifically, it examines how online reader comments contribute to deliberation from cognitive and interactive perspectives.
Jin Yang
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When in response to the spread of misinformation social media platforms publicly negotiate their role as providers and mediators of the online public sphere, they outsource the responsibility of scrutinizing information to public deliberation.
José Luis Quintero Ramírez
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The Virtual Agora Project: A Research Design for Studying Democratic Deliberation
In 2001, the National Science Foundation provided $2.1 million in funding for the Virtual Agora Project, a three-year exploration of the effects of online and face-to-face democratic deliberation. The project seeks to shed light on deliberation's effects
Peter Muhlberger
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