Deliberative Democracy Institute
Using Technology and Methodologies to Promote Deliberative Democracy
So far, we have used Delib-3 as a testing ground for developing a deliberative web application. Delib 3 had many features, including a summary of group decisions and the ability to express opinions during public discussions and per-option chats. One Continue Reading …
Can we develop an app for more meaningful discussions on social media?
We will discuss the development of a new open source deliberative social media app. Continue Reading …
Who ever tried to conduct real life deliberation, knows it is a messy bussines. People want to talk in the same time, many options are raised and the topics fly in an abstract way. I find that even highly experienced Continue Reading …
Trust is one of the elements that construct deliberation. When people deliberate they have to trust each other motives in order to work together toward a common goal (Mutz, 2002). Therefore establishing trust between participants is an important element in Continue Reading …
Following the previous post which raised the question, whether conservatives tend less to come to deliberative events, Marina Lindell, from Abo academy Finland, sent me a paper of her collogues at Abo academy, that further looked at the data, and Continue Reading …
When Marina Lindel invited to a deliberation participents with pro and anti-immigration attitudes, she found out that anti-immigrationsits tended come less to the experiment (Lindell, 2014, p. 7). Jost et al, had found that conservatives (in Lindell’s experiment, they are Continue Reading …
One of the questions Miguel raised in Incoma was “How can we help debates to converge to thoughts instead of ramifying it forever?” Convergence of ideas is one of the main chalanges in deliberation. While asking questions and discussing Continue Reading …
Social objects deliberation may be the key to one of deliberation’s most eminent problems. In every occasion of deliberation I have ever participated in, that problem persisted. The problem was defined by Habermas, Cohen and others, as how to let Continue Reading …
When we engage in deliberation we hope that the participants will learn and get informed during the process. But people get most of their knowledge from day to day learning, and not while they deliberate. People learn by watching news, Continue Reading …
When talking about wisdom of the multitude, we think on ways that enable our collective ideas to aggregate and present the right answers. A well-known method to acquire the wisdom of the crowds was publicized by Surowiecki in The Wisdom Continue Reading …