An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design

Davies, Todd; O’Connor, Brendan; Cochran, Alex; Effrat, Jonathan J.; Parker, Andrew; Newman, Benjamin; Tam, Aaron

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1302.3912

2013

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.3912

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An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design

Todd Davies¹,

Brendan O’Connor²,

Alex Cochran³

et al.

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Deliberative community networks for local governance

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The paper outlines Deliberative Community Networks as the evolution of Community Networks, as they have been the '90es of the 20th century. Deliberative Community Networks aim at overcoming the limits 'traditional' Community Networks have shown in involving citizens in the decision making process by local institutions and at supporting the government bodies actually committed to involve citizens in policy making. The papr also outlines the logical architecture of the software platform we intend to develop to manage Deliberative Community Networks and the first bricks we plan to use to implement it

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Deliberative community networks for local governance

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'Groupware for Groups': Problem-Driven Design in <I>Deme</I>

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Design choices can be clarified when group interaction software is directed at solving the interaction needs of particular groups that pre-date the groupware. We describe an example: the Deme platform for online deliberation. Traditional threaded conversation systems are insufficient for solving the problem at which Deme is aimed, namely, that the democratic process in grassroots community groups is undermined both by the limited availability of group members for face-to-face meetings and by constraints on the use of information in real-time interactions. We describe and motivate design elements, either implemented or planned for Deme, that addresses this problem. We believe that "problem focused" design of software for preexisting groups provides a useful framework for evaluating the appropriateness of design elements in groupware generally.

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An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design

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Deliberative community networks for local governance

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