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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: The Blossoming Field of Online Deliberation / Todd Davies
Part I: Prospects for Online Civic Engagement
1. Virtual Public Consultation: Prospects for Internet Deliberative Democracy / James S. Fishkin
2. Citizens Deliberating Online: Theory and Some Evidence / Vincent Price
3. Can Online Deliberation Improve Politics? Scientific Foundations for Success / Arthur Lupia
4. Deliberative Democracy, Online Discussion, and Project PICOLA (Public Informed Citizen Online Assembly) / Robert Cavalier with Miso Kim and Zachary Sam Zaiss
Part II: Online Dialogue in the Wild
5. Friends, Foes, and Fringe: Norms and Structure in Political Discussion Networks / John Kelly, Danyel Fisher, and Marc Smith
6. Searching the Net for Differences of Opinion / Warren Sack, John Kelly, and Michael Dale
7. Happy Accidents: Deliberation and Online Exposure to Opposing Views / Azi Lev-On and Bernard Manin
8. Rethinking Local Conversations on the Web / Sameer Ahuja, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, and Andrea Kavanaugh
Part III: Online Public Consultation
9. Deliberation in E-Rulemaking? The Problem of Mass Participation / David Schlosberg, Steve Zavestoski, and Stuart Shulman
10. Turning GOLD into EPG: Lessons from Low-Tech Democratic Experimentalism for Electronic Rulemaking and Other Ventures in Cyberdemocracy / Peter M. Shane
11. Baudrillard and the Virtual Cow: Simulation Games and Citizen Participation / Hélène Michel and Dominique Kreziak
12. Using Web-Based Group Support Systems to Enhance Procedural Fairness in Administrative Decision Making in South Africa / Hossana Twinomurinzi and Jackie Phahlamohlaka
13. Citizen Participation Is Critical: An Example from Sweden / Tomas Ohlin
Part IV: Online Deliberation in Organizations
14. Online Deliberation in the Government of Canada: Organizing the Back Office / Elisabeth Richard
15. Political Action and Organization Building: An Internet-Based Engagement Model / Mark Cooper
16. Wiki Collaboration Within Political Parties: Benefits and Challenges / Kate Raynes-Goldie and David Fono
17. Debian's Democracy / Gunnar Ristroph
18. Software Support for Face-to-Face Parliamentary Procedure / Dana Dahlstrom and Bayle Shanks
Part V: Online Facilitation
19. Deliberation on the Net: Lessons from a Field Experiment / June Woong Rhee and Eun-mee Kim
20. The Role of the Moderator: Problems and Possibilities for Government-Run Online Discussion Forums / Scott Wright
21. Silencing the Clatter: Removing Anonymity from a Corporate Online Community / Gilly Leshed
22. Facilitation and Inclusive Deliberation / Matthias Trénel
23. Rethinking the 'Informed' Participant: Precautions and Recommendations for the Design of Online Deliberation / Kevin S. Ramsey and Matthew W. Wilson
24. PerlNomic: Rule Making and Enforcement in Digital Shared Spaces / Mark E. Phair and Adam Bliss
Part VI: Design of Deliberation Tools
25. An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design / Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran, Jonathan J. Effrat, Andrew Parker, Benjamin Newman, and Aaron Tam
26. Online Civic Deliberation with E-Liberate / Douglas Schuler
27. Parliament: A Module for Parliamentary Procedure Software / Bayle Shanks and Dana Dahlstrom
28. Decision Structure: A New Approach to Three Problems in Deliberation / Raymond J. Pingree
29. Design Requirements of Argument Mapping Software for Teaching Deliberation / Matthew W. Easterday, Jordan S. Kanarek, and Maralee Harrell
30. Email-Embedded Voting with eVote/Clerk / Marilyn Davis
Epilogue: Understanding Diversity in the Field of Online Deliberation / Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Name Index
Subject Index
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