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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, Nicole Askin
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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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Characterizing democratic deliberation in an online forum

Information Polity, 2015
The use of online forums to support civic discourses on local politics has gained momentum, but it is not clear whether such online conversations generate relevant outcomes for democratic decision-making. Empirical studies in online deliberation suggest that online forums often produce fragmented and unorganized public preferences when conversations ...
Kropczynski, Jess, Cai, Guoray, Carroll, John M.   +2 more
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Democracy online: technologies for democratic deliberation

This paper explores the use of online tools to improve democratic participation and deliberation. These tools offer new opportunities for inclusive communication and networking, specifically targeting the participation of diverse groups in decision-making processes.
Meylan-Stevenson, Adam, Hawes, Ben, Ryan, Matthew   +2 more
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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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Under Construction: The Field of Online Deliberation Research

Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2012
How might we describe the development of online deliberation as a field of research and practice? How should we interpret its significance?
Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss
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Designing online deliberation using web 2.0 technologies

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2012
In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for the role of institutions and political practitioners in designing online consultation projects. As a case study we evaluate the Brazilian government-run initiative known as Marco Civil Regulatorio that used web 2.0 tools to draft a bill of law on Internet legislation with the aid of citizen's ...
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Mass Online Deliberation in Participatory Policy-Making—Part I

2017
In this Part II of the present Chapter, we describe the stages (or phases), mechanisms and procedures of a MOD process, in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section “ MOD Paradigm Versus Deliberative Polling” of Part I. Our task is to provide an MOD blueprint for an ICT-based MOD platform that almost immediately lends itself to system ...
Cyril Velikanov, Alexander Prosser
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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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Letting the faculty deliberate: analyzing online deliberation in academia using a comprehensive approach

Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2018
While the scholarship on online deliberation has recently witnessed remarkable growth, most studies have focused on different parts of deliberation, thus neglecting other parts of the theorized pro...
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