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The Magic Sauce: Practices of Facilitation in Online Policy Deliberation
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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The effect of online political deliberation on the effectiveness of government response
PurposeFollowing Hovland's persuasion theory, this paper aims to develop a conceptual model and analyzes characteristics of online political deliberation behavior from three aspects (i.e. information, situation and manager).
Yuning Zhao, Xinxue Zhou, Tianmei Wang
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The Design of Online Deliberation: Implications for Practice, Theory and Democratic Citizenship
The essay focuses on the role of design in online deliberation, and outlines three directions for future research. First, research must embed the study of the technical and organizational architecture of online discussion spaces, as an ongoing area of ...
Idit Manosevitch
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The People’s Lobby: A Model for Online Activist Deliberation
This article presents a model for a “People’s Lobby,” a digital process of deliberation and activism that allows citizens to have their voices heard on important political issues.
Jeffrey C. Swift
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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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Is Information Good for Deliberation? Link-Posting in an Online Forum
Does information improve deliberation? Proponents of online deliberation argue that the availability of the Internet can solve two longstanding problems of citizen decisionmaking: that preexisting inequalities tend to be reproduced rather than minimized ...
Christopher Anderson +2 more
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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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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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The Unfulfilled Promise of Online Deliberation
Since online deliberation has not delivered on the expectations of more considered, democratic participation, the authors propose less focus on technological ‘fixes’ and more on re-conceptualizing its primary purpose to gathering resonance in an ...
Brian Sullivan, Janette Hartz-Karp
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