Online Deliberation 2005 / DIAC 2005

(Selected) Conference Themes

Deliberative Polling (James Fishkin)

• 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.

Polling

• Pragmatics of polling, face-to-face, telephone, online; statistical accuracy

Parliamentary Software

• Parliament, e-Liberate
• Design issues matrix developed; architecture (modular "rule-base" e.g.); protocol development (XML)

Emerging Processes

• Wikipedia and Debian development processes
• Wikipedia for (Green Party Canada) platform development

Government Use

• Sweden, Canada; (But what if government doesn't want to encourage people to participate?!)

Design Criteria

• Online, analytic-deliberative, public participation
• Asynchronous deliberation, Paul Resnick

Online deliberation as CSCW, group process, etc.

• Platform from MIT
• Local context, Andrea Kavanaugh

Ancilliary Ideas

• Countercultural roots of virtual community, Fred Turner
• Conversation and issue mapping
• Transformed social interaction in immersive virtual reality, Jeremy Bailenson