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Elements in deliberation

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Elements in deliberation are elemnts that influance the outcome of deliberation. They interact with each other to change the results of deliberation.

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Communication Elements

The oreder of talking

Synchronic or a synchronic

Social Queues information carries by the meduim

People needs social information, like body language, intonations and facial expressions to better understand each other. The more the medium can transfer social information, the better and faster the mutual understanding will be.Higher social queues can also elevate trust between participents[1]. Therefore face to face meetings will be better from video conferences and video conferences will be better the teleconferences, and they will be better than emails (emails will have an advantage in deliberation, because all the formers were synchronous mediums which slow down the pace of group talks, while emails are a synchronous).

Summery:

  • The more social queues a medium can carry
    • The better and faster participants will understand each other.
    • Higher social queues can also elevate trust between participents

Groups Size Elements

Summery:

  • The larger the group is:
    • The less time there is for indeviduals in synchronous mediums to give their opnions.
    • In a-sychronous medium there is less times to read each participent opinion.
    • The more potential wisdom there is in a group.
    • The harder it is to create SON.

Epistemic Elements

Priming

Priming helps participants to find related ideas and converge into agreed solution, while it may reduce the diversity of opinions.

Questions

RPE

Inter Perspective

Inter perspective promte wider undestanding. It helps to better undestand minorities and promote the RPE and Curiosty in some participents (usualy more liberals), while creating stress in others that may have high need for order and who do not like to explore.

Psychological Elements

Fighting vs. Cooperating

FFFF vs. PFC

Exploring vs. Exploiting

Conformation bias

(which is related also to priming Also, the perceived honor of the speakers.

References

  1. Bicchieri, C., Lev-On, A., & Chavez, A. (2010). The medium or the message? Communication relevance and richness in trust games. Synthese, 176(1), 125–147.