Online Deliberation 2005 / DIAC 2005
(Selected) Conference Themes
Deliberative Polling (James Fishkin)Polling
- A copyrighted process --applied, experimental political science!
- Most developed and documented process (I think). Based on a question or issue, random sample, briefing materials, deliberation, decision-making (sometimes binding!)
- An expensive process (they pay participants); He's advocating "Democracy Day" throughout the US.
Parliamentary Software
- Pragmatics of polling, face-to-face, telephone, online; statistical accuracy
Emerging Processes
- Parliament, e-Liberate
- Design issues matrix developed; architecture (modular "rule-base" e.g.); protocol development (XML)
Government Use
- Wikipedia and Debian development processes
- Wikipedia for (Green Party Canada) platform development
Design Criteria
- Sweden, Canada; (But what if government doesn't want to encourage people to participate?!)
Online deliberation as CSCW, group process, etc.
- Online, analytic-deliberative, public participation
- Asynchronous deliberation, Paul Resnick
Ancilliary Ideas
- Platform from MIT
- Local context, Andrea Kavanaugh
- Countercultural roots of virtual community, Fred Turner
- Conversation and issue mapping
- Transformed social interaction in immersive virtual reality, Jeremy Bailenson