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Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Can new technology enhance purpose-driven, democratic dialogue in groups, governments, and societies? Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice is the first book that attempts to sample the full range of work on online deliberation, forging new
Davies, Todd, Gangadharan, Seeta Peña
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Online Deliberation

2018
Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the empirical research on online deliberation, focusing on three aspects: the preconditions of online deliberations, the communicative processes of online deliberations as well as the central outcomes of online deliberations. Regarding preconditions, we provide an overview of sampling choices
Kim Strandberg, Kimmo Grönlund
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What influences online deliberation? A wikipedia study

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2014
In this paper we describe a study aimed at evaluating and improving the quality of online deliberation. We consider the rationales used by participants in deletion discussions on Wikipedia in terms of the literature on democratic and online deliberation and collaborative information quality.
Lu Xiao 0002, Nicole Askin
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Political Discussion and Deliberation Online

2014
AbstractAs information and communication technologies have diffused, scholars have turned attention to online informal political discussion and formal deliberation because of the importance of online political talk for constructing society and informing government policy.
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Modeling and Measuring Deliberation Online

2019
Online communication is often characterized as dominated by antagonism or groupthink, with little in the way of meaningful interaction or persuasion. This essay examines how one can detect and measure instances of more productive conversation online, considered through the lens of deliberative theory.
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Models for Online Computing in Developing Countries: Issues and Deliberations

Information Technology for Development, 2014
The implementation of computerized health information systems (HIS) across the African continent has had mixed success over the past 20 years. Many countries have been left with non-functional systems which cannot be adapted to meet current health information demands because funding is exhausted, the source code for legacy systems is not available and ...
Bob Jolliffe   +3 more
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Diversity in the Online Deliberations of NGOs in the Caribbean

Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2012
ABSTRACT Deliberative democracy has been promoted as a way of improving legitimacy and political equality. This article seeks to understand how deliberation takes place within the intersection of two unique spaces: regional civil society groups in the Caribbean and communication in online forums. Specifically, I explore how various forms of participant
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Democratic Deliberation in Online Consultation Forums

2010
This chapter examines the extent to which the Internet can represent a place for negotiation, consensus building, and civic participation using Singapore’s online consultation portal and the debate over the decision to build the nation’s first casino resort as a case study.
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Social Work and Online Education with All Deliberate Speed

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 2013
Imagine a whiteboard, virtual classrooms, instant messaging, chat rooms, Wikis … and you are visualizing online Web-facilitated education. Is this the direction of social work education or is this a vision of social work that is not quite in focus? In this article the author asserts that online education with its technological innovations is here to ...
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