Difference between revisions of "Evaluating deliberation technologies in comparison to the "General Process of Deliberation""
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| − | Google may not seem like a deliberative technology at first glance, but by understanding how it works, one might accept that it is a deliberative machine. | + | Google may not seem like a deliberative technology at first glance, but by understanding how it works, one might accept that it is a deliberative machine. |
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| + | Google's PageRank System utilizes some features of deliberation. For instance, it lets everybody post their own site I am basically Index every site on the web. Then decide whether a page is important for the users by several factors that use the wisdom of the crowds. From what we know the main mechanism is how many other Sites referred to the specific site<ref>[https://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-algorithm.htm#:~:text=Google's%20algorithm%20does%20the%20work,keywords%20appear%20on%20the%20page.&text=Google%20references%20this%20index%20when%20a%20user%20enters%20a%20search%20query. Google's PageRank System]</ref>. Another mechanism is when the user visits a site for how long does she stay. By doing so Google uses several steps of the [[General Process of Deliberation|GPD]]. It let everybody suggest an answer to a question. and then uses users' preferences to help mark the best solutions for the users. | ||
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Revision as of 06:59, 4 September 2020
Contents
By comparing different technologies with the GPD, we can uncover what are the elements of good technologies in facilitating deliberation.
In this section, I will take well proven deliberative technologies like Google, StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and less than good almost-deliberative technologies like twitter, forums, Facebook, and compare all of them to our technologies: Delib, Consenz, Whysaurus. By doing so, I hope to find what we are missing and help improve deliberative apps.
First-line deliberative technologies
These technologies are very good at harassing the wisdom of the crowds to create high-quality solutions.
Google may not seem like a deliberative technology at first glance, but by understanding how it works, one might accept that it is a deliberative machine.
Google's PageRank System utilizes some features of deliberation. For instance, it lets everybody post their own site I am basically Index every site on the web. Then decide whether a page is important for the users by several factors that use the wisdom of the crowds. From what we know the main mechanism is how many other Sites referred to the specific site[1]. Another mechanism is when the user visits a site for how long does she stay. By doing so Google uses several steps of the GPD. It let everybody suggest an answer to a question. and then uses users' preferences to help mark the best solutions for the users.