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ONLINE DELIBERATION
Design, Research, and Practice
Edited by
Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan
 
v
 
Contents
Contributors ixPreface xv
Introduction: The Blossoming Field of Online Deliberation 1
T
ODD
D
AVIES
 
Part I Prospects for Online Civic Engagement
1 Virtual Public Consultation: Prospects for Internet DeliberativeDemocracy 23
J
AMES
S. F
ISHKIN
 
2 Citizens Deliberating Online: Theory and Some Evidence 37
V
INCENT
P
RICE
 
3 Can Online Deliberation Improve Politics? Scientific Foundationsfor Success 59
A
RTHUR
L
UPIA
 
4 Deliberative Democracy, Online Discussion, and Project PICOLA(Public Informed Citizen Online Assembly) 71
R
OBERT
C
AVALIER WITH
M
ISO
K
IM AND
Z
ACHARY
S
AM
Z
AISS
 
 
vi / C
ONTENTS
 
Part II Online Dialogue in the Wild
5 Friends, Foes, and Fringe: Norms and Structure in PoliticalDiscussion Networks 83
J
OHN
K
ELLY
, D
ANYEL
F
ISHER
,
AND
M
ARC
S
MITH
 
6 Searching the Net for Differences of Opinion 95
W
ARREN
S
ACK
, J
OHN
K
ELLY
,
AND
M
ICHAEL
D
ALE
 7 Happy Accidents: Deliberation and Online Exposure to OpposingViews 105
A
ZI
L
EV
-O
N AND
B
ERNARD
M
ANIN
 8 Rethinking Local Conversations on the Web 123
S
AMEER
A
HUJA
, M
ANUEL
P
ÉREZ
-Q
UIÑONES
,
AND
A
NDREA
K
AVANAUGH
 
Part III Online Public Consultation
9 Deliberation in E-Rulemaking? The Problem of MassParticipation 133
D
AVID
S
CHLOSBERG
, S
TEVE
Z
AVESTOSKI
,
AND
S
TUART
S
HULMAN
 
10 Turning GOLD into EPG: Lessons from Low-Tech DemocraticExperimentalism for Electronic Rulemaking and Other Venturesin Cyberdemocracy 149
P
ETER
M. S
HANE
 11 Baudrillard and the Virtual Cow: Simulation Games and CitizenParticipation 163
H
ÉLÈNE
M
ICHEL AND
D
OMINIQUE
K
REZIAK
 12 Using Web-Based Group Support Systems to Enhance ProceduralFairness in Administrative Decision Making in South Africa 167
H
OSSANA
T
WINOMURINZI AND
J
ACKIE
P
HAHLAMOHLAKA
 13 Citizen Participation Is Critical: An Example from Sweden 171
T
OMAS
O
HLIN
 
Part IV Online Deliberation in Organizations
14 Online Deliberation in the Government of Canada: Organizing theBack Office 177
E
LISABETH
R
ICHARD
 
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