Presentation from Panel on Recent Perspectives on Online Deliberation, 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, May 26, 2017
2000-ACM SIGCHI-The social life of small graphical chat spacesMarc Smith
This document analyzes user behavior and social dynamics in three graphical chat rooms in the Microsoft V-Chat system over 119 days. Survey and log data show that:
1) Over 350,000 unique users participated, averaging 5 chat sessions of 6.6 minutes each. 44% only participated once while repeat users had an average of 8 sessions.
2) Users actively used avatar gestures and movement to provide nonverbal cues as in face-to-face interactions, though gesture use declined with experience.
3) Avatar clustering patterns and movement resembled real-world proxemics, though graphical features lacked full immersion due to technical limitations.
Slides from the Special Interest Group (SIG) session "Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda" at the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15), Seoul, April 22, 2015
The document discusses different types of online community tools categorized into synchronous interactions, asynchronous interactions, and publishing. It describes community tools like chat, video, and file sharing as synchronous interactions and blogs, wikis, and discussion boards as asynchronous interactions. The middle section covers community building activities like navigation, search, and member directories as well as tools for individual participation and cultivating the community.
Analysis of Twitter Post on School Committee in IndonesiaNisa Faridz
The document analyzes tweets about School Committees in Indonesia and finds that the network structure consists of several small and medium clusters with some prominent news and media accounts acting as information brokers. The dominant issue discussed in the tweets is the perceived ineffectiveness and negative portrayal of School Committees. The "important tweeters" spreading information about this issue are mainly large mass media organizations rather than individuals or educational groups.
This document summarizes a study that analyzed user roles in online discussion forums. The study used features of user behavior to cluster 75,400 users from 596 forums on a large Irish discussion board into different roles. The roles identified included joining conversationalists, taciturns, elitists, supporters, popular participants, grunts, and ignored users. The analysis found some forums had distinct compositions of user roles compared to others, and certain topics seemed to determine a particular forum's composition. The results helped show differences in user grouping and composition across forums.
This document discusses how life scientists are using online collaboration tools like Friendfeed. It begins with an overview of Friendfeed and how it is being used by scientists to discuss science, solve problems, publish work, report on conferences, and collaborate. Examples are given of how scientists have used these tools to secure funding and publish papers. The outcomes of using these tools include speed, connecting with more researchers globally, lowering barriers to participation, and making the process more open and traceable. Both advantages like greater effectiveness of online collaboration and disadvantages like information overload are discussed.
2000-ACM SIGCHI-The social life of small graphical chat spacesMarc Smith
This document analyzes user behavior and social dynamics in three graphical chat rooms in the Microsoft V-Chat system over 119 days. Survey and log data show that:
1) Over 350,000 unique users participated, averaging 5 chat sessions of 6.6 minutes each. 44% only participated once while repeat users had an average of 8 sessions.
2) Users actively used avatar gestures and movement to provide nonverbal cues as in face-to-face interactions, though gesture use declined with experience.
3) Avatar clustering patterns and movement resembled real-world proxemics, though graphical features lacked full immersion due to technical limitations.
Slides from the Special Interest Group (SIG) session "Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda" at the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15), Seoul, April 22, 2015
The document discusses different types of online community tools categorized into synchronous interactions, asynchronous interactions, and publishing. It describes community tools like chat, video, and file sharing as synchronous interactions and blogs, wikis, and discussion boards as asynchronous interactions. The middle section covers community building activities like navigation, search, and member directories as well as tools for individual participation and cultivating the community.
Analysis of Twitter Post on School Committee in IndonesiaNisa Faridz
The document analyzes tweets about School Committees in Indonesia and finds that the network structure consists of several small and medium clusters with some prominent news and media accounts acting as information brokers. The dominant issue discussed in the tweets is the perceived ineffectiveness and negative portrayal of School Committees. The "important tweeters" spreading information about this issue are mainly large mass media organizations rather than individuals or educational groups.
This document summarizes a study that analyzed user roles in online discussion forums. The study used features of user behavior to cluster 75,400 users from 596 forums on a large Irish discussion board into different roles. The roles identified included joining conversationalists, taciturns, elitists, supporters, popular participants, grunts, and ignored users. The analysis found some forums had distinct compositions of user roles compared to others, and certain topics seemed to determine a particular forum's composition. The results helped show differences in user grouping and composition across forums.
This document discusses how life scientists are using online collaboration tools like Friendfeed. It begins with an overview of Friendfeed and how it is being used by scientists to discuss science, solve problems, publish work, report on conferences, and collaborate. Examples are given of how scientists have used these tools to secure funding and publish papers. The outcomes of using these tools include speed, connecting with more researchers globally, lowering barriers to participation, and making the process more open and traceable. Both advantages like greater effectiveness of online collaboration and disadvantages like information overload are discussed.
This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook. Some key advantages include enabling networking and making new friends, sharing photos and ideas easily, and providing emotional support through online networks. However, some disadvantages are that it can increase loneliness, lead to excessive multitasking associated with depression and anxiety, and result in oversharing of private information. The document concludes that social networking is an unavoidable fact, but that people need to learn to control how they use it rather than be controlled by it.
Presentation of my current research interests to 'Scoping Questions of Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society,' Digital Society Network, University of Sheffield, 16 July 2014.
This document describes a proposed AI chatbot called Socrates, Please that is intended to encourage critical thinking and supplement formal education. It would do this by asking open-ended questions about what users type to challenge assumptions and bounce ideas around. The chatbot aims to fill the gap in asynchronous distance learning where there is less opportunity for real-time discussion. It also draws from theories that Socratic questioning and discourse with chatbots can improve critical thinking.
This document discusses the issues and challenges of conducting research in cyberspace. It outlines how cyberspace can be a useful tool for nursing research by allowing large, international samples to be accessed cost-effectively and with speedy responses. However, there are specific representativeness, identity, privacy, and ethical issues that must be considered, such as the reliability of online data and obtaining proper consent. The ethical concerns increase based on the level of immersion in the virtual environment, from public web spaces to highly private chatrooms.
This document discusses the challenges of using social media as both the object and instrument of research. It notes that social media research aims both to study social media as a phenomenon and to gain empirical insights into social life through social media data. However, distinguishing these aims can be difficult. The document then examines what constitutes the "social" in social media, noting that this depends on platform features, user-generated content, context, social metadata, methods, and combinations of these factors. It argues that the social cannot be taken as a given, but must be empirically detected. The document concludes that social media research requires flexible, adjustable methods that can align different components like platform, data, measures and context to address specific research questions.
Post-social methods? Issues in live research, by Noortje Marres and Esther We...Digital Methods Initiative
This document discusses the relationship between actor-network theory (ANT) and digital methods for social research. It outlines four encounters between ANT and digital methods: 1) the debate around traceability as a datum, 2) questions around the concept of post-sociality, 3) the formative role of devices, and 4) the development of post-social research methods. It then describes two pilot studies using co-word analysis to trace the variable composition of issues over time in order to detect liveliness, applying a post-social method approach to digital data. The goal is to develop social research techniques informed by ANT claims that examine the formation and transformation of heterogeneous information networks.
This is the presentation I gave for the Jesse Jones Fellowship at the College of Communication of the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2009. Explains an overview of my research on citizens' political talk and why it matters.
Incremental Persuasion through Microblogging: A Survey of Twitter Users in La...Agnis Stibe
The document summarizes research on persuasion patterns in Twitter. A survey of 403 Latvian Twitter users found that more experienced users were more likely to generate content, trust information on Twitter, recognize unwritten communication rules, and feel Twitter could call users to action offline. The findings support the hypothesis that Twitter users' behaviors and attitudes can change incrementally over time through use of the platform, in line with the fourth postulate of the Persuasive Systems Design framework.
News commenting and the politics of participationFiona Martin
The politics of participation in news commenting, presented at IAMCR 2014, Hyderabad. Fiona Martin's Mediating the Conversation study identifies where news media are opening articles for comment, how social analytics are driving investment in user commenting platforms and which types of companies figure in the growth of the news mediation industry.
A Year of Discursive Struggle on Twitter: What Can a Mixed-Methods Approach T...Ehsan Dehghan
This document summarizes a study analyzing discourse around freedom of speech on Twitter over the course of a year. It used mixed methods including network analysis, corpus analysis, and discourse analysis to examine intra- and inter-community dynamics between antagonistic groups. Results showed communities tended to reinforce their own ideologies more than interact productively with adversaries. However, Twitter features sometimes bridged divisions by allowing reaction and confrontation, or uniting against a common enemy. Overall, filter bubbles and echo chambers were found to some degree, but information also crossed community boundaries through Twitter interactions.
The document discusses social networks and their applications. It provides an overview of social network properties like diameter, degree distributions, clustering, and small world models. It then discusses how e-markets can enable trading of information and provides examples like stock markets and price posting markets. It proposes a model of a social network where economic agents are connected based on trust and a seller can use the network to sell products by approaching recommenders and their friends. The system would update trustworthiness and connections based on purchase decisions.
What do we get from Twitter - and what not?Katrin Weller
This document summarizes popular Twitter research in the social sciences. It discusses exemplary research areas like brand communication, crises/disasters, elections/politics, and popular culture. Popular research visions see Twitter as a new data source with insights into human behavior and thoughts. However, there are limitations and challenges. The document reviews the top cited Twitter publications, which applied methods like interviews, experiments, quantitative analysis, and network/linguistic analysis on datasets ranging from thousands to millions of tweets. Challenges include technical limitations, sampling biases, and different approaches to problems like sentiment analysis.
Would you like to be my friend: Patron responsiveness to academic library Fac...parfitt123
A Masters student presentation - presented by Suzanne Parfitt (Master of Information Studies student at Charles Sturt University, Australia) at the MMIT 2015 Conference, Sheffield University, UK in September 2015
This document discusses methodology for conducting online ethnographies to study how people interact in virtual environments. Some topics studied include how interactions differ online compared to in-person, skills learned from participating in online worlds, and what future virtual worlds may exist. Strengths of online ethnographies include greater anonymity allowing for more open sharing and extensive automatically collected data. Weaknesses include difficulties obtaining user demographic data and gauging non-verbal cues through text-based communication.
The document discusses several studies related to learners' experiences with e-learning and the use of digital technologies. Key findings include:
1. Learners value flexible access to course resources and make regular use of electronic materials. Their experiences are shaped by individual differences, learning contexts, and the development of digital skills over time.
2. Patterns of technology use, such as preferences for certain online media, vary based on factors like age, academic subject, and perceptions of learning communities.
3. Understanding learners' experiences provides insight into how they creatively use technologies in personalized ways to support their studies. It can help develop strategies and skills for effective learning in the digital age.
This document summarizes the key findings from recent research on gender differences in internet use. It identifies three main trends: 1) While the gender gap in internet access has disappeared, gaps remain in the types of online activities men and women engage in. 2) Gender differences in internet use reflect broader social roles and expectations. 3) Digital inequalities mirror and sometimes enhance existing social and economic inequalities related to factors like gender, immigration status, ethnicity, and parental background. The topic has become more interdisciplinary and data-driven over time, providing a richer understanding of the intersection between gender and technology use.
The document discusses methods for analyzing how communication ties between nations change over time and whether they become more homogeneous or heterogeneous. Statistical analysis of international telephony data from 1989 to 1999 found increasing clustering of nations with similar cultural and linguistic attributes, indicating growing homogeneity in telecommunicative space. A few exceptions were the Arabic and Islamic areas, which showed less connection between similar nations, potentially signifying loss of local ties. Overall, the findings provide evidence that countries of a common heritage are more likely to communicate with each other over time.
This document discusses deliberation technologies and their current state, limitations, and opportunities for future research. It describes the state of online deliberation platforms, including their limitations in structuring discussions, avoiding echo chambers and polarization. It introduces argumentation-based deliberation systems and contested collective intelligence, which make the logical structure of discussions and disagreements more explicit. Examples of existing deliberation technologies are provided, along with their advantages over traditional discussion formats. Current limitations are outlined as well as opportunities for future research, such as improving interfaces, scaling technologies, and interoperability.
2009-JCMC-Discussion catalysts-Himelboim and SmithMarc Smith
This study addresses 3 research questions in the context of online political discussions:
What is the distribution of successful topic starting practices, what characterizes the content
of large thread-starting messages, and what is the source of that content? A 6-month
analysis of almost 40,000 authors in 20 political Usenet newsgroups identified authors
who received a disproportionate number of replies. We labeled these authors ‘‘discussion
catalysts.’’ Content analysis revealed that 95 percent of discussion catalysts’ messages
contained content imported from elsewhere on the web, about 2/3 from traditional news
organizations. We conclude that the flow of information from the content creators to the
readers and writers continues to be mediated by a few individuals who act as filters and
amplifiers.
This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook. Some key advantages include enabling networking and making new friends, sharing photos and ideas easily, and providing emotional support through online networks. However, some disadvantages are that it can increase loneliness, lead to excessive multitasking associated with depression and anxiety, and result in oversharing of private information. The document concludes that social networking is an unavoidable fact, but that people need to learn to control how they use it rather than be controlled by it.
Presentation of my current research interests to 'Scoping Questions of Privacy, Surveillance and Governance in the Digital Society,' Digital Society Network, University of Sheffield, 16 July 2014.
This document describes a proposed AI chatbot called Socrates, Please that is intended to encourage critical thinking and supplement formal education. It would do this by asking open-ended questions about what users type to challenge assumptions and bounce ideas around. The chatbot aims to fill the gap in asynchronous distance learning where there is less opportunity for real-time discussion. It also draws from theories that Socratic questioning and discourse with chatbots can improve critical thinking.
This document discusses the issues and challenges of conducting research in cyberspace. It outlines how cyberspace can be a useful tool for nursing research by allowing large, international samples to be accessed cost-effectively and with speedy responses. However, there are specific representativeness, identity, privacy, and ethical issues that must be considered, such as the reliability of online data and obtaining proper consent. The ethical concerns increase based on the level of immersion in the virtual environment, from public web spaces to highly private chatrooms.
This document discusses the challenges of using social media as both the object and instrument of research. It notes that social media research aims both to study social media as a phenomenon and to gain empirical insights into social life through social media data. However, distinguishing these aims can be difficult. The document then examines what constitutes the "social" in social media, noting that this depends on platform features, user-generated content, context, social metadata, methods, and combinations of these factors. It argues that the social cannot be taken as a given, but must be empirically detected. The document concludes that social media research requires flexible, adjustable methods that can align different components like platform, data, measures and context to address specific research questions.
Post-social methods? Issues in live research, by Noortje Marres and Esther We...Digital Methods Initiative
This document discusses the relationship between actor-network theory (ANT) and digital methods for social research. It outlines four encounters between ANT and digital methods: 1) the debate around traceability as a datum, 2) questions around the concept of post-sociality, 3) the formative role of devices, and 4) the development of post-social research methods. It then describes two pilot studies using co-word analysis to trace the variable composition of issues over time in order to detect liveliness, applying a post-social method approach to digital data. The goal is to develop social research techniques informed by ANT claims that examine the formation and transformation of heterogeneous information networks.
This is the presentation I gave for the Jesse Jones Fellowship at the College of Communication of the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2009. Explains an overview of my research on citizens' political talk and why it matters.
Incremental Persuasion through Microblogging: A Survey of Twitter Users in La...Agnis Stibe
The document summarizes research on persuasion patterns in Twitter. A survey of 403 Latvian Twitter users found that more experienced users were more likely to generate content, trust information on Twitter, recognize unwritten communication rules, and feel Twitter could call users to action offline. The findings support the hypothesis that Twitter users' behaviors and attitudes can change incrementally over time through use of the platform, in line with the fourth postulate of the Persuasive Systems Design framework.
News commenting and the politics of participationFiona Martin
The politics of participation in news commenting, presented at IAMCR 2014, Hyderabad. Fiona Martin's Mediating the Conversation study identifies where news media are opening articles for comment, how social analytics are driving investment in user commenting platforms and which types of companies figure in the growth of the news mediation industry.
A Year of Discursive Struggle on Twitter: What Can a Mixed-Methods Approach T...Ehsan Dehghan
This document summarizes a study analyzing discourse around freedom of speech on Twitter over the course of a year. It used mixed methods including network analysis, corpus analysis, and discourse analysis to examine intra- and inter-community dynamics between antagonistic groups. Results showed communities tended to reinforce their own ideologies more than interact productively with adversaries. However, Twitter features sometimes bridged divisions by allowing reaction and confrontation, or uniting against a common enemy. Overall, filter bubbles and echo chambers were found to some degree, but information also crossed community boundaries through Twitter interactions.
The document discusses social networks and their applications. It provides an overview of social network properties like diameter, degree distributions, clustering, and small world models. It then discusses how e-markets can enable trading of information and provides examples like stock markets and price posting markets. It proposes a model of a social network where economic agents are connected based on trust and a seller can use the network to sell products by approaching recommenders and their friends. The system would update trustworthiness and connections based on purchase decisions.
What do we get from Twitter - and what not?Katrin Weller
This document summarizes popular Twitter research in the social sciences. It discusses exemplary research areas like brand communication, crises/disasters, elections/politics, and popular culture. Popular research visions see Twitter as a new data source with insights into human behavior and thoughts. However, there are limitations and challenges. The document reviews the top cited Twitter publications, which applied methods like interviews, experiments, quantitative analysis, and network/linguistic analysis on datasets ranging from thousands to millions of tweets. Challenges include technical limitations, sampling biases, and different approaches to problems like sentiment analysis.
Would you like to be my friend: Patron responsiveness to academic library Fac...parfitt123
A Masters student presentation - presented by Suzanne Parfitt (Master of Information Studies student at Charles Sturt University, Australia) at the MMIT 2015 Conference, Sheffield University, UK in September 2015
This document discusses methodology for conducting online ethnographies to study how people interact in virtual environments. Some topics studied include how interactions differ online compared to in-person, skills learned from participating in online worlds, and what future virtual worlds may exist. Strengths of online ethnographies include greater anonymity allowing for more open sharing and extensive automatically collected data. Weaknesses include difficulties obtaining user demographic data and gauging non-verbal cues through text-based communication.
The document discusses several studies related to learners' experiences with e-learning and the use of digital technologies. Key findings include:
1. Learners value flexible access to course resources and make regular use of electronic materials. Their experiences are shaped by individual differences, learning contexts, and the development of digital skills over time.
2. Patterns of technology use, such as preferences for certain online media, vary based on factors like age, academic subject, and perceptions of learning communities.
3. Understanding learners' experiences provides insight into how they creatively use technologies in personalized ways to support their studies. It can help develop strategies and skills for effective learning in the digital age.
This document summarizes the key findings from recent research on gender differences in internet use. It identifies three main trends: 1) While the gender gap in internet access has disappeared, gaps remain in the types of online activities men and women engage in. 2) Gender differences in internet use reflect broader social roles and expectations. 3) Digital inequalities mirror and sometimes enhance existing social and economic inequalities related to factors like gender, immigration status, ethnicity, and parental background. The topic has become more interdisciplinary and data-driven over time, providing a richer understanding of the intersection between gender and technology use.
The document discusses methods for analyzing how communication ties between nations change over time and whether they become more homogeneous or heterogeneous. Statistical analysis of international telephony data from 1989 to 1999 found increasing clustering of nations with similar cultural and linguistic attributes, indicating growing homogeneity in telecommunicative space. A few exceptions were the Arabic and Islamic areas, which showed less connection between similar nations, potentially signifying loss of local ties. Overall, the findings provide evidence that countries of a common heritage are more likely to communicate with each other over time.
This document discusses deliberation technologies and their current state, limitations, and opportunities for future research. It describes the state of online deliberation platforms, including their limitations in structuring discussions, avoiding echo chambers and polarization. It introduces argumentation-based deliberation systems and contested collective intelligence, which make the logical structure of discussions and disagreements more explicit. Examples of existing deliberation technologies are provided, along with their advantages over traditional discussion formats. Current limitations are outlined as well as opportunities for future research, such as improving interfaces, scaling technologies, and interoperability.
2009-JCMC-Discussion catalysts-Himelboim and SmithMarc Smith
This study addresses 3 research questions in the context of online political discussions:
What is the distribution of successful topic starting practices, what characterizes the content
of large thread-starting messages, and what is the source of that content? A 6-month
analysis of almost 40,000 authors in 20 political Usenet newsgroups identified authors
who received a disproportionate number of replies. We labeled these authors ‘‘discussion
catalysts.’’ Content analysis revealed that 95 percent of discussion catalysts’ messages
contained content imported from elsewhere on the web, about 2/3 from traditional news
organizations. We conclude that the flow of information from the content creators to the
readers and writers continues to be mediated by a few individuals who act as filters and
amplifiers.
This document summarizes a PhD research project exploring how online social media is used to support local governance. It describes a case study of a small community that uses online discussion forums to discuss local issues. Analysis identified five patterns of "governance conversation" including sharing information, providing feedback, coordinating responses, informally mediating issues, and engaging in discussion of complex problems. While no binding decisions were made online, the discussions supported governance action. The research examines how online tools can both facilitate instrumental problem-solving and support expressive deliberation that accommodates pluralism in local governance.
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ANALYSING ONLINE
POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS:
METHODOLOGICAL
CONSIDERATIONS
Abstract
Online political discussions are thought to lead to more
political engagement and empowerment of peripheral
groups in society and thereby contributing to deliberative
citizenship. Because people have increased opportuni-
ties to voice their political opinions and publish these for
a potentially large audience to read, the involved level of
interactivity can mobilise people who would otherwise not
have been in political life. Since Web 2.0 applications (i.e.
blogs, social networking sites) have become popular, on-
line discussions have taken a great fl ight on the web. This
article discusses the advantages and diffi culties of studying
online discussions applying a mixed method approach of
content analysis, social network analysis and longitudinal
analysis. The additional value of using a combination of
research methods simultaneously is that it does justice to
the complex object of study because a more in-depth and
triangulated measurement of political communications
can be established. The methodological implications will
be illustrated on data from the online political discussion
group, nl.politiek, one of the most active discussion groups
during the Dutch national elections in 2006.
MAURICE VERGEER
LIESBETH HERMANS
Maurice Vergeer is Associate
Professor in the Department
of Communication, Radboud
University Nijmegen; e-mail:
[email protected]
Liesbeth Hermans is Associate
Professor in the Department
of Communication, Radboud
University Nijmegen; e-mail:
[email protected]
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Introduction
Online political discussion forums, like newsgroups, chat rooms, and blogs
are relatively new interactive communication innovations that contribute to an
electronic democracy (Davis 2005; cf. Shane 2004). Online communication has
transformed the public sphere in the sense that people (i.e. non-professionals) have
increased opportunities to disseminate their thoughts unmoderated over a wider
geographical area than prior to the internet.
There are many ways to study online discussion groups. Most studies focus
on the content of the discussion in messages (cf. Hill & Hughes 1997; Papacharissi
2004), while others focus on the visualisation of the structure of the large data sets on
discussions (Sack 2001; Turner et al 2005). In this article, we discuss ways to analyse
political online discussions using mixed methods. Using a combination of content
analysis with a social network approach, we analyse data within a longitudinal
perspective. The additional value of the combination of multiple research designs
and measurements is that it allows for triangulation of results, meaning that the
same object under study is studied from multiple angles. These combined research
strategies produce a more valid measurement and therefore a be� er unders.
Scrutiny in the spotlight: Networked Councillors and the Scrutiny processCatherine Howe
The document discusses the role of networked councillors in the scrutiny process. It begins by defining a networked councillor as an effective community leader in the digital world. It then explores some digital tools that councillors can use, such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The document suggests ways these tools could be utilized in scrutiny processes, such as opening up the agenda setting and evidence gathering. It provides examples of how scrutiny is currently using social media and digital tools in innovative ways in some local councils. Finally, it poses discussion questions about how councils could develop more networked approaches to scrutiny.
Generative models of online discussion threads (ASONAM 2018 tutorial)Pablo Aragón
Online discussion is a core feature of numerous social media platforms and has attracted increasing attention from academia for different and relevant reasons, e.g., the resolution of problems in collaborative editing, question answering and e-learning platforms, the response of online communities to news events, online political and civic participation, etc. Discussions on the Internet commonly occur as a exchange of written messages among two or more participants. These conversations are often represented as threads, which are initiated by a user posting a starting message (a post) and then other users replies to either the post or the earlier replies. Given this sequential posting behavior, online discussion threads follow a tree network structure.
Different modeling approaches have been proposed to identify the governing mechanisms of the network structure of threads. Statistical models of this type are aimed to reproduce the growth of discussion threads through different features, often related to human behavior. This is why they are usually called generative models: they do not only estimate the statistical significance of their corresponding features but also reproduce the temporal arrival patterns of messages that form a discussion thread. The parameters of these models allow to compare different platforms and communities, they even can help to assess the impact of design choices and user interface changes on the way the discussions unfold. Therefore, we aim to provide the participants with state of the art tools and methods for the analysis, diagnosis, management and improvement of online discussion platform and communities.
Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different New...Katharina Esau
Ever since the internet has provided easy access to online debates, advocates of deliberative democracy have hoped for an improved public sphere. This paper investigates which particular platform features promote deliberative debate online. We assume that moderation, asynchronous discussion, a well-defined topic, and the availability of information enhance
the level of deliberative quality of user comments. A comparison between different types of news platforms that differ in terms of design (a news forum, news websites, and Facebook news pages) shows that deliberation (rationality, reciprocity, respect, and constructiveness) differs significantly between platforms. The news forum yields the most rational and respectful debate. While user comments on news websites are only slightly less
deliberative, Facebook comments perform poorly in terms of deliberative quality. However, comments left on news websites and on Facebook show particularly high levels of reciprocity among users.
This document summarizes a seminar meeting about new media and society. It provides an agenda for group discussions on paper proposals, includes summaries of several students' paper proposals, and notes from a discussion about reference management tools. The paper proposals address topics such as online identity presentation, the future of public broadcasting, the relationship between online news and celebrity news, new media's role in the economic crisis, and how new media shapes global communities.
Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia discussions: The Wikipedians' RationalesLu Xiao
This is a presentation I gave at 2019 Wikimania Research in Sweden (August 17). It gives an overview of our research projects related to Wikipedia's Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions, with a focus on the rationales in the discussions
The Community Board: Building Local Communitybalchenn
In the Capstone project for my Masters in Human Computer Interaction Design at Indiana University, I worked on designing technology to promote interaction between
people in a neighborhood. The concept consists of a website and public displays that make people aware
of each other and activities in the neighborhood.
The document summarizes the motivation, methods, findings, and design of a community board project aimed at increasing social interaction in local neighborhoods. It discusses how declining social interaction can negatively impact communities. It then outlines how the project conducted a literature review and ethnographic study to understand how to design an online tool that facilitates offline interaction. Key findings indicated that people want purposeful, offline interactions with familiar others in public spaces. The designed tool, called the Community Board, combines a website with a public display to raise awareness of neighbors and events to foster new connections and acquaintances in the local community.
This document analyzes social media data from Korea's 2012 presidential election to understand campaign dynamics. It collected data on mentions of the three major candidates from Facebook, Twitter, and Google on several dates. Results show Twitter generated the most negative entropy, followed by Facebook, indicating it was the most open communication system. The liberal candidates saw higher entropy on social media than the conservative candidate. The study suggests conventional theories may be limited and online data provides better insights into election campaigns.
This document summarizes the kick-off meeting for a project bringing together academics and stakeholders to assess evidence and have a deliberative dialogue on issues relating to media, public action, and policy. The project will examine topics like civic engagement, political communication, and digital literacies. It discusses models for relating research to policy and challenges in bridging the gaps between academic and policy spheres. Breakout groups discussed potential issues and research to focus on, such as universal broadband, public service broadcasting, and media deregulation. The document concludes with remarks on the importance of having a manageable agenda and making academic knowledge available to non-academic audiences.
PDF CEE 2019 - Pablo Aragón - Online Participation & Platform Effects in Civi...Fundacja ePaństwo
The document discusses a technopolitical approach for the design of civic technologies. It summarizes research on how conversation threading impacts online discussions using the example of the Spanish news platform Menéame. It then describes the participatory design process of Metadecidim, an instance of the Decidim platform, which allows citizens to participate in deciding how the civic technology evolves through online and offline discussions. The document advocates for a technopolitical approach where citizens participate in shaping the design of civic technologies to promote more democratic outcomes.
This document discusses the implications of introducing "one more tool" to dispersed learning communities. It analyzes two case studies where an additional technology was incorporated: video recordings in a global public health community of practice, and a specialized platform for peer counseling in a higher education distance learning community. The key findings are that a new tool interacts with and can impact the community's practice, domain, and social relationships in complex ways, such as changing whose voices are heard, influencing power dynamics, and reshaping boundaries. Introducing a tool requires carefully considering these broader implications beyond just features and usability.
Characterizing Online Participation in Civic Technologies - PhDPablo Aragón
This document summarizes research characterizing online participation in civic technologies. It discusses how online platforms have transformed society and the rise of civic tech tools intended to facilitate democratic participation. However, platform design is not neutral and can influence how citizens engage. The research aims to better understand how technical features of civic platforms impact participation through case studies of online discussion forums and petition platforms. Key findings include that conversation threading on one forum increased discussion depth and reciprocity, while changing the ranking algorithm on a petition site made it harder for new petitions to gain visibility and support.
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
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1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Edited, Transcribed, and Annotated Dialogue: Transforming Face to Face Discussion into Online Deliberation
1. Edited, Transcribed, and Annotated Dialogue:
Transforming Face to Face Discussion into
Online Deliberation
Todd Davies
Symbolic Systems Program &
Center for the Study of Language and
Information
Stanford University
ICA, San Diego
May 26, 2017
2. First use of term in Google Ngram:
Blackshaw, L., & Fischhoff, B. (1988). Decision making in online
searching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science,
39(6), 369.
3. Examples of OD research
Community planning processes often leave out key stakeholders because they rely on face to face
meetings that not everyone can make – need online tools for joining the deliberation.
Davies, T., Sywulka, B., Saffold, R., & Jhaveri, R. (2002). Community democracy online: A preliminary report from
East Palo Alto. American Political Science Association (Boston)
Different main deliberation methods all lead to substantial changes in knowledge and/or attitudes over
and above background information
Carman, K. L., et al. (2015). Effectiveness of public deliberation methods for gathering input on issues in
healthcare: Results from a randomized trial. Social Science & Medicine, 133, 11-20..
Online deliberation methods do not appear to negatively affect equality of participation relative to face
to face methods, except for a small effect on racial disparity (African-American versus White).
Showers, E., Tindall, N., & Davies, T. (2015, August). Equality of Participation Online Versus Face to Face:
Condensed Analysis of the Community Forum Deliberative Methods Demonstration. In International Conference
on Electronic Participation (pp. 53-67). Springer International Publishing.
Content analysis of video recordings shows range of inter-coder reliabilities for a framework developed
in the context of face-to-face activist meetings in Europe.
Bolotin, J. et al. (forthcoming). Meeting Democracy Redux: Content Analysis of General Assembly Video
Recordings from the Movement. In 2017 International Conference on Deliberation and Decision Making:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Civic Tech. Springer International Publishing.
9. Synchronous F2F dialogue is…
easier for contributors to the dialogue
a richer modality for expression
10. Face to face dialogue is…
more motivating for participants than online
forums (Showers, Tindall, & Davies 2015)
more natural for most people than any other
medium
11. Asynchronous text is…
preferred by many users after it is produced
easier to search and browse
more citable
better for deep comprehension (Wolf, 2008)
13. Formally publishing a dialogue…
makes it available to a wider and time-unlimited
audience
facilitates citation in follow-on literature
14. Ex-post editing and annotation…
provides more time for deliberative care
allows for the insertion of additional evidence
and references
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16.
17. Edited, Transcribed, and Annotated
Dialogue: Elements
Edits
• transcription error corrections
• copy edits
• focus deletions
Annotations
• (inline) additions: elaborations, clarifications, factual corrections,
takebacks
• footnotes, references, asides, additional information
Transcriptions
• spoken words
• audiovisual aids
• speaker identifications and affiliations
• setting details
18. Edited, Transcribed, and Annotated
Dialogue: Goals
Each person (contributor, observer, or user)
interacts with the material in their preferred
modality
No loss of record
Contributors are allowed to improve upon their
original utterances
Contributors are accountable for what they claim
19. Edited, Transcribed, and Annotated
Dialogue: Research Questions
Do pre- and post-(edited, annotated) versions
differ on deliberative quality?
Do users find ETAD materials easy to interact
with?
What procedures for ETAD lead to the best
outcomes (quality, ease of use, etc.)?