Computer-Supported Argument Maps as a Policy Memory

La publicidad institucional en la arena parlamentaria española

“…No siendo nuestro objetivo establecer un mapa argumentativo (Renton, A. y Macintosh, A., 2007) completo, reseñaremos a continuación algunos de los principales argumentos utilizados durante las sesiones de toma en consideración de las cinco proposiciones de ley presentadas. Sesiones que se desarrollaron en septiembre de 1992 (PP-1992a), febrero de 1994 (PP-1993), mayo de 1999 (debate conjunto de IU-1997 y GM-1998) y febrero de 2001.…”

Using Argument Visualization to Enhance e-Participation in the Legislation Formation Process

“…For these visualizations we decided to use the IBIS framework [14], [15], as implemented by the 'Compendium' tool (http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/) as it is mature, having been used extensively in the past for arguments visualization in several different areas, including the area of politics [7], [8], [9], as mentioned in section 2, and it provides a simple but powerful typology of nodes for the representation of wicked problems.…”

“…Renton [7] investigates the use of CSAV in order to clarify to the public complex political issues, taking the minutes of two debates from the Scottish Parliament (concerning the introduction of the 'Terrestrial Trunk Radio Masts' (TETRA), and the 'Antisocial Behaviour'), converting them into arguments visualizations and then having them evaluated through one structured and two unstructured qualitative interviews. Renton & Macintosh [8] deal with how CSAV can be used to encourage debate and deliberation by citizens on public issues, in a manner that an electronic 'policy memory' can be formed; they demonstrate their approach (consisting of overview maps, dialogue maps and argument maps) through the creation of a set of maps representing the discussion that took place in the Scottish Parliament concerning the 'Smoking in Public Spaces' policy. Ohl [9] describes the application of CSAV for the diagrammatic representation of citizens' submissions in a public discourse on a draft South East Queensland Regional Plan, aiming to promote government transparency and accountability.…”

“…This is putting barriers to public participation (both 'on-line' and 'off-line'), since most citizens today do not have enough time for such extensive study, and also some of them lack the required familiarity and education. The use of Computer Supported Argument Visualisation' (CSAV) [6] may result in a reduction of these barriers to e-participation, however it has been only to a limited extent explored [7], [8], [9], so further research is required in this direction.…”

“…However, limited research has been conducted on how we can use CSAV methods for conveying political information to the citizens concerning the substantial points and arguments of important political debates and documents in an easily and quickly understandable form, and how useful such an approach is for citizens. According to Renton & Macintosh [8] 'The use of argument visualization in a political context is still in its infancy'. Renton [7] investigates the use of CSAV in order to clarify to the public complex political issues, taking the minutes of two debates from the Scottish Parliament (concerning the introduction of the 'Terrestrial Trunk Radio Masts' (TETRA), and the 'Antisocial Behaviour'), converting them into arguments visualizations and then having them evaluated through one structured and two unstructured qualitative interviews.…”