Enriching Community Networks by Supporting Deliberation

Cindio, Fiorella De; Marco, A. De; Ripamonti, Laura Anna

doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_20

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“…Interestingly, our participants even compared our platform to Wikipedia, as they expected it to work in the same way (as presented in Section 7.1.2). However, we observed that the participants used the system primarily to vote on and evaluate the last few submissions, rather than to compose continuous interpretations -a phenomenon also observed when the openDCN was used in Milan to foster public discussions and a sense of community [27]. However, we argue that this process of participation is key to achieving one contextual consensus of the submitted interpretations, leading to one final written interpretation emerging from applying the human-based genetic algorithm.…”

Section: The Design Of Future E-deliberation Platformsmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…This evaluation is then used by the e-Deliberation platform to assess the fitness of each existing solution and to decide which solutions are to be discarded and which are kept and highlighted. The surviving solutions are then fed back to the participants, with the instruction to produce new solutions by mutating those presented [27]. In our case, the algorithm allowed the participants to tackle open questions and to collaboratively draft an art interpretation by having each of them propose one interpretation and then evaluate those of the others.…”

Section: The Concept Of Using the Human-based Genetic Algorithm To Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Online deliberation, the third tool, is used for a structured debate that is regulated by a pre-established protocol. The last deliberative tool is the group-decision feature, which supports group decisions with mathematical algorithms for choosing a proposal of interpretations within a set of alternatives under consideration [27]. These tools support various participation modalities, and not all of them necessarily belong to just one space.…”

Section: One Deliberative Space and Its Four Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There, De Cindio et al [27] surveyed participants' ideas with the aim of using the results to spur debate and to foster a sense of community. The openDCN platform can be downloaded from SourceForge 1 .…”

Section: The Concept Of Using the Human-based Genetic Algorithm To Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The openDCN platform can be downloaded from SourceForge 1 . The Italian political party Movimento 5 Stelle and the Italian political mass protest movement of II Popolo Viola also used this platform [27].…”

Section: The Concept Of Using the Human-based Genetic Algorithm To Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ex-situ technology appropriation of an e-deliberation platform in an art gallery

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Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications &Amp; Services

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When designing interactive web applications and services, understanding the situated nature of interaction and investigating technology appropriation experiences in the context of real-world use deserve special attention. In this paper, we report on experiences with technology appropriation of an e-Deliberation platform that we designed to support collaborative interpretation in an art gallery. Our qualitative study is based on interviews with 23 participants to explore a) visitors' practices when commenting on and interpreting art and b) how these practices are shaped by interaction with an e-Deliberation platform for collaborative writing that imposes strict regulations. An analysis of 12 hours of interview data yielded two particular appropriation practices related to the demand to satisfy additional visitors' communication needs, such as exchanging their ideas and thoughts face-to-face before writing an interpretation. Although the designers anticipated these specific needs, users also appropriated the e-Deliberation platform in unanticipated ways. These practices lead to a better understanding of the situated nature of ex-situ interaction when using interactive web applications to support remote collaboration in the art gallery context.

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Section: The Design Of Future E-deliberation Platformsmentioning

confidence: 65%

Section: The Concept Of Using the Human-based Genetic Algorithm To Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: One Deliberative Space and Its Four Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Concept Of Using the Human-based Genetic Algorithm To Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Concept Of Using the Human-based Genetic Algorithm To Fimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ex-situ technology appropriation of an e-deliberation platform in an art gallery

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Learning from appropriation practices

Zubaidi-Polli

Verdezoto

2018

IJPCC

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Purpose Public participation is an important – if not the most important – pillar of democracy. When designing new e-participation environments, it is advisable to consider previous appropriation practices of deliberative community networks to encourage broad participation. This can be achieved by sharing appropriation practices and by supporting the situated development of use, which may not only increase user participation but also decrease user frustration. Design/methodology/approach This paper addresses previously analyzed e-participation appropriation practices and technological limitations that participants faced when using the e-participation environment from the Aarhus’s Artwork design experiment. The lessons learned from these limitations and the appropriation practices identified help us in designing the next generation of e-participation environments and in counteracting their unsuccessful appropriation. Findings Potential design improvements for future collaborative writing e-environments that facilitate location-agnostic participation, and improvements that enable successful technology appropriation are presented. Originality/value These improvements are important to future research to inform a hybrid of in situ and ex situ technologies that enable collaborative writing to increase public participation in leisure spaces, engage a broader range of citizens and thus also encourage less motivated people.

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Facilitating participatory decision-making in local communities through map-based online discussion

Cai

2009

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies have been conducted to use online maps directly as a communication tool to support community discussion. In this paper, we explore the potential of using geospatial annotation technology to facilitate map-based online discussion among various stakeholders in local communities. In particular, we developed a prototype system, GeoAnnotator, which explicitly links participants' discussion contributions with their geographic references. The features of this system are based on the conceptual understanding of map-based discussion space, which guides the generation of initial system requirements. We demonstrate the utility of such systems by a hypothetical scenario of building a Smoke-Free campus in a university community.

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Enriching Community Networks by Supporting Deliberation

Cited by 5 publications

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Ex-situ technology appropriation of an e-deliberation platform in an art gallery

Ex-situ technology appropriation of an e-deliberation platform in an art gallery

Learning from appropriation practices

Facilitating participatory decision-making in local communities through map-based online discussion

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