Kerill,

I had a similar problem in my dissertation research comparing online
deliberations. To my knowledge, there is no list that would allow to
draw a sample according to the criteria of quantitative research
methodology (i.e. an inclusive list of all forums).

I decided to collect as many cases as possible which satisfy my
criteria (large-scale political deliberation). Currently, I know of
about 60 such cases. In a next step, I selected nine cases based on
the consideration that they should be similar with respect to certain
criteria (size, duration, access, etc.), but also different with
respect to others (type of deliberation, topic, etc.). Of course, you
will have to match your ideals with what you find as cases. You end up
with a small-N research design, which I think is well suited for the
current stage of development of online forums.

If you're interested, I can send you the list with my cases (if your
focus is similar to mine)

All the best,
Steffen

kerilldunne wrote:

> Hi there,
> Does anyone know of a database (population list) from which I could
draw a sample of online political forums to analyze? The type forums I
am interested in are ones which allow citizens to discuss local or
national political issues. If anyone has any ideas please email me at
kerilldunne@...
> Thanks
> Kerill
>

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Hamburg University of Technology
Institute of Technology and Society
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Germany

Tel. +49 40 42878-3680
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Hi there,
Does anyone know of a database (population list) from which I could
draw a sample of online political forums to analyze? The type forums I
am interested in are ones which allow citizens to discuss local or
national political issues.
If anyone has any ideas please email me at kerilldunne@...
Thanks
Kerill

A dialogue/deliberation group I belong to, D2D, http://www.d2d.nu
has just published an on-line book called "For or Against the
Citizenry – Reclaiming the Public's Role in Democracy".  The
articles and article author presentations, including myself, are
summarized in English - Both html o pdf format.

We are strong advocates of the use of  eDemocracy tools/
deliberation & dialogue in the improvement of our Swedish democracy
through a variety of deliberation, dialogue oriented reforms.

We hope the book will have an impact in the coming (Sept 17)
national and local elections here.  The group, with its "prominent
members´of all political colors" have been very active on the debate
pages of many newspapers and is fast becoming a public opinion mover
here in Sweden.



Regards

Gail Watt

www.edemocracy.se

www.d2d.nu

http://home.rixtele.com/~gail

Everyone,

I would like to invite you to a live, online session describing the
deliberation tool, http://TruthMapping.com, a tool that eliminates
digression and enforces rational discussion unlike standard methods of
deliberation including e-mail, message boards and even conversation.
Methods for limiting participation to classrooms, groups or
organizations will also be discussed and there will be a question and
answer period following the presentation.

This live, online session will take place as a part of the
Tutor/Mentor eConference in coordination with Indiana University.

The conference is accessible through standard Macromedia flash/breeze
technology with streaming audio so your web browser is likely fully
enabled for participation already and there is no cost or obligation
associated either with participating in this session or with the
TruthMapping site.

This session will take place this Wednesday, May 17th at 3:20 pm EST
at: http://breeze.iu.edu/truthmapping/  (This area is available now if
you would like to verify your browser's flash capabilities ahead of
time.)

Agenda for the Tutor/Mentor eConference:
http://econference.uc.iupui.edu/Agenda/tabid/132/Default.aspx

Speakers and biographies:
http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com/generic27.html

I hope to see you there!
Jack Paulus
http://TruthMapping.com

Thanks to all for your suggestions –much appreciated




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Hello everyone,

For those of you I have not yet met, my name is Todd Graham, and I am a
researcher at the University of Amsterdam.  I am currently analyzing discussion
threads from Channel 4's (British station) Big Brother website
(http://community.channel4.com/groupee/forums/a/frm/f/8216069011). 
Unfortunately, I have managed to lose my data set.  I had archived all the
discussion threads, which were posted between 1 January 2006 and 15 February
2006.  This was the time period surrounding the broadcasting of Celebrity Big
Brother UK  (premiered on 05-01-06 and ended 27-01-06) - the one with British MP
George Galloway as a housemate.  I have contacted Channel 4 to see if they kept
their own personal archives, but naturally, once they remove the threads from
the site they delete them.  As such, I am desperately seeking out anyone who
might have access to this data.  If any of you happen to have access to this
data or have any leads, could you please help me?

Thank you.
Cheers,
Todd

I've not heard of Steiner's work until now. Thanks for mentioning it. I do
know of Tannen's work on discourse analysis. There's quite a bit of discourse
analytic work which is relevant to research on deliberation. Is there
something specific about discourse analysis or Tannen's work that seems
particularly relevant to you? I've found discourse analysis research on
disagreement and rules and maxims of interaction especially relevant for my
work on deliberation.

Best wishes,
~Jenny



>     On 3/14/06, Evaluating Dialogue & Deliberation - Michael Briand
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>  > Has anyone actually used the Steiner et al. "Discourse
>  > Quality Index"?  If not, are you nevertheless familar with
>  > it?
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>  > What about Tannen's "Discourse Analysis"?
>  >
>  > Thanks.
>
>  Hi Michael,
>
>  yes, I think there are a few people who have drawn on Steiner's
>  indicators, among them I believe is Nicole Spencer
>  (nspencer@...). I've used some of his indicators as well:
>  http://www.wz-berlin.de/online-mediation/files/publications/quod_2_4.pdf
>  (though I'm currently revising my coding scheme to make it much
>  shorter and simpler).
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> On 3/14/06, Evaluating Dialogue & Deliberation - Michael Briand
> <mkbriand@...> wrote:
> > From: Evaluating Dialogue & Deliberation - Michael Briand
> > Replies to this message go to the whole group.
> >
> > Has anyone actually used the Steiner et al. "Discourse
> > Quality Index"?  If not, are you nevertheless familar with
> > it?
> >
> > What about Tannen's "Discourse Analysis"?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> yes, I think there are a few people who have drawn on Steiner's
> indicators, among them I believe is Nicole Spencer
> (nspencer@...). I've used some of his indicators as well:
> http://www.wz-berlin.de/online-mediation/files/publications/quod_2_4.pdf
> (though I'm currently revising my coding scheme to make it much
> shorter and simpler).
>
> I hope it's ok for you to forward your mail to the deliberation
> research list (mkbriand@...), I'm sure that there a lot
> of people who can comment on this - though you might need to make your
> question a little more specific.
>
> I haven't heard of Tannen's work yet, have you got a reference?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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> Has anyone actually used the Steiner et al. "Discourse
> Quality Index"?  If not, are you nevertheless familar with
> it?
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> What about Tannen's "Discourse Analysis"?
>
> Thanks.

Hi Michael,

yes, I think there are a few people who have drawn on Steiner's
indicators, among them I believe is Nicole Spencer
(nspencer@...). I've used some of his indicators as well:
http://www.wz-berlin.de/online-mediation/files/publications/quod_2_4.pdf
(though I'm currently revising my coding scheme to make it much
shorter and simpler).

I hope it's ok for you to forward your mail to the deliberation
research list (mkbriand@...), I'm sure that there a lot
of people who can comment on this - though you might need to make your
question a little more specific.

I haven't heard of Tannen's work yet, have you got a reference?

Greetings,

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Topics in this digest:

1. Re: Digest Number 40
From: Kerill Dunne
2. Re: Digest Number 40
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
3. Re: who participates question
From: Andrea Kavanaugh
4. RE: who participates question
From: "Chadwick Andrew"
5. RE: who participates question
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
6. RE: who participates question
From: "Chadwick Andrew"


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:29:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: Kerill Dunne
Subject: Re: Digest Number 40

In terms of my research E-Democracy is the use of an online forum to facilitate an online participatory democratic space for citizens to engage with local government around local policy decision making.
Regards
Kerill
deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com wrote:
There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Online forum
From: "kerilldunne"
2. Re: Online forum
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
From: "kerilldunne"
Subject: Online forum

Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
following:

• An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
(online forum) failed to attract participants.

• An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy

Please email me at: kerilldunne@...

Many Thanks
Kerill






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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
Subject: Re: Online forum

Hi Kerill,

When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?

Thanks,
~Jenny


> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> following:
>
> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
> Many Thanks
> Kerill
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:43:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
Subject: Re: Digest Number 40

Thanks for the clarification. People use the term "E-democracy" in many
different ways, and I just wanted to be sure!

There's a useful book published in the 1990s edited by Rosa Tsagarousianou,
Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan titled Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities and
civic networks that details several civic networking projects and some of the
chapters discuss issues of success and failure.

Andrea Kavanaugh's research on the Blackbsburg, Virginia civic network might
also provide some information in the vein you seek, although I'm not 100% sure
of that. (Her URL is http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan/Home).

My sense is that there's not much published work on why people don't
participate. Vince Price and Joe Cappella have a manuscript (maybe published)
about who doesn't show up for online forums to discuss political topics (as
part of an experiment). That research does not involve local officials, but it
might give you some idea of who is likely to participate and who is not. You
can email Vince Price (vprice@...) or Joe Cappella
(jcappella@...) to request a copy of the manuscript if you can't
find it published.

Good luck,
~Jenny




> In terms of my research E-Democracy is the use of an online forum to
> facilitate an online participatory democratic space for citizens to engage
> with local government around local policy decision making.
> Regards
> Kerill
> deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> There are 2 messages in this issue.
>
> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. Online forum
> From: "kerilldunne"
> 2. Re: Online forum
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
> From: "kerilldunne"
> Subject: Online forum
>
> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> following:
>
> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
> Many Thanks
> Kerill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
> Subject: Re: Online forum
>
> Hi Kerill,
>
> When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Jenny
>
>
>> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
>> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
>> following:
>>
>> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
>> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>>
>> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>>
>> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
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>> Many Thanks
>> Kerill
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:51:46 -0500
From: Andrea Kavanaugh
Subject: Re: who participates question

Hi Kerill,
(Thanks, Jenny, for pointing to our research on
the Blacksburg Electronic Village.)
My work has focused on who participates in civic
life, how they use technology to facilitate their
participation, and what kinds of tools would
better support more interactive and collaborative
(i.e., deliberative) participation by the
broadest possible representation of citizens.
While we have not addressed specifically the
"reasons why an E-Democracy initiative(online
forum) failed to attract participants" nor framed
the research question as "what citizens want from
E-Democracy" we have used political participation
theory and social psychological theory and diffusion theory to:
1. model(quantitatively, using path analysis)
multiple factors that predict civic engagement and the role of internet use;
2. analyze (quantitatively)associations between
different types of individuals (demographics,
motivations, psychological attributes), Internet use and civic participation;
3. analyze (qualitatively) features and
characteristics of online forums linked to
community websites that seem to support
discussion and deliberation in the wild;
4. describe design rationale and efforts
(forthcoming in Todd Davies and Beth Noveck's book).
We have posted some of these papers on the
research website Jenny noted, or more directly:
http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/projects/digitalgov/papers

I would be happy to discuss any of this further
with you off the list, and provide copies of other papers, if that's helpful.
Andrea


At 10:43 AM 2/23/2006, Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:
>Thanks for the clarification. People use the term "E-democracy" in many
>different ways, and I just wanted to be sure!
>
>There's a useful book published in the 1990s edited by Rosa Tsagarousianou,
>Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan titled Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities and
>civic networks that details several civic networking projects and some of the
>chapters discuss issues of success and failure.
>
>Andrea Kavanaugh's research on the Blackbsburg, Virginia civic network might
>also provide some information in the vein you seek, although I'm not 100% sure
>of that. (Her URL is
>http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan/Home).
>
>My sense is that there's not much published work on why people don't
>participate. Vince Price and Joe Cappella have a manuscript (maybe published)
>about who doesn't show up for online forums to discuss political topics (as
>part of an experiment). That research does not involve local officials, but it
>might give you some idea of who is likely to participate and who is not. You
>can email Vince Price (vprice@...) or Joe Cappella
>(jcappella@...) to request a copy of the manuscript if you can't
>find it published.
>
>Good luck,
>~Jenny
>
>
>
>
> > In terms of my research E-Democracy is the use of an online forum to
> > facilitate an online participatory democratic space for citizens to engage
> > with local government around local policy decision making.
> > Regards
> > Kerill
> > deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> > There are 2 messages in this issue.
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> > 1. Online forum
> > From: "kerilldunne"
> > 2. Re: Online forum
> > From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
> > From: "kerilldunne"
> > Subject: Online forum
> >
> > Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> > quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> > following:
> >
> > • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> > (online forum) failed to attract participants.
> >
> > • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
> >
> > Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
> >
> > Many Thanks
> > Kerill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
> > From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
> > Subject: Re: Online forum
> >
> > Hi Kerill,
> >
> > When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~Jenny
> >
> >
> >> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> >> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> >> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
> >>
> >> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
> >>
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:40:13 -0000
From: "Chadwick Andrew"
Subject: RE: who participates question

Kerill,

The problem here is distinguishing between general community networks
and those with a much more specific focus on political discussion. It's
definitely worth checking out the literature on the BEV. But anyway,
here are a few further empirical/case study references for your pile!

On Missouri, see Pigg, K. E. (2001) 'Applications of Community
Informatics for Building Community and Enhancing Civic Society'
Information, Communication and Society 4 (4), pp. 507-527.

On Boston, see Pinkett, R. and O'Bryant, R. (2003) 'Building Community,
Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency: Early Results From the Camfield
Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project' Information,
Communication and Society 6 (2), pp. 187-210.

On Ennis in Ireland, see Bannon, L. J. and Griffin, J. (2001) 'New
Technology, Communities and Networking: Problems and Prospects for
Orchestrating Change' Telematics and Informatics 18 (1), pp. 35-49.

On the UK Commbill see Coleman, S. (2004) 'Connecting Parliament to the
Public via the Internet' Information, Communication and Society 7 (1),
pp. 1-22, also Chadwick, A. (2003) 'Bringing E-Democracy Back In: Why It
Matters For Future Research On E-Governance' Social Science Computer
Review 21 (4), pp. 443-455.

Also, sorry for the shameless self-publicity ;-) but Chapter 5 of my new
book is a 15,000 word overview and analysis of the research in this
area, with lots more references to chase up.

Yours,

Andy

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From: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrea
Kavanaugh
Sent: 23 February 2006 16:52
To: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [delib] who participates question


Hi Kerill,
(Thanks, Jenny, for pointing to our research on the Blacksburg
Electronic Village.)
My work has focused on who participates in civic life, how they use
technology to facilitate their participation, and what kinds of tools
would better support more interactive and collaborative (i.e.,
deliberative) participation by the broadest possible representation of
citizens.
While we have not addressed specifically the "reasons why an E-Democracy
initiative(online forum) failed to attract participants" nor framed the
research question as "what citizens want from E-Democracy" we have used
political participation theory and social psychological theory and
diffusion theory to:
1. model(quantitatively, using path analysis) multiple factors that

=== message truncated ===

Much better!

>     Hi Jenny,
>
>  Erm, an understated link was lurking in my sig, but anyway, here it is:
>
>  Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies
>  (Oxford University Press, 2006).
>
>  OUP USA: http://tinyurl.com/jsdjh
>
>  Blog and resources: http://www.andrewchadwick.com
>
>  Available now from all good bookstores in the US. UK and European
>  distribution starts in about a month.
>
>  Is that ok? ;-)
>
>  Andy
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
>  > [mailto:deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>  > Jennifer Stromer-Galley
>  > Sent: 23 February 2006 18:20
>  > To: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
>  > Subject: RE: [delib] who participates question
>  >
>  > Andy,
>  >
>  > If you're going to do shameless self promotion, tell us the
>  > title of your book!
>  >
>  > :-)
>  >
>  > ~Jenny
>  >
>  > > Also, sorry for the shameless self-publicity ;-) but
>  > Chapter 5 of my
>  > > new book is a 15,000 word overview and analysis of the research in
>  > > this area, with lots more references to chase up.
>  > >
>  > > Yours,
>  > >
>  > > Andy
>  >
>  >
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Hi Jenny,

Erm, an understated link was lurking in my sig, but anyway, here it is:

Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies
(Oxford University Press, 2006).

OUP USA: http://tinyurl.com/jsdjh

Blog and resources: http://www.andrewchadwick.com

Available now from all good bookstores in the US. UK and European
distribution starts in about a month.

Is that ok? ;-)

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Jennifer Stromer-Galley
> Sent: 23 February 2006 18:20
> To: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [delib] who participates question
>
> Andy,
>
> If you're going to do shameless self promotion, tell us the
> title of your book!
>
> :-)
>
> ~Jenny
>
> > Also, sorry for the shameless self-publicity ;-) but
> Chapter 5 of my
> > new book is a 15,000 word overview and analysis of the research in
> > this area, with lots more references to chase up.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Andy
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>

Andy,

If you're going to do shameless self promotion, tell us the title of your book!

:-)

~Jenny

> Also, sorry for the shameless self-publicity ;-) but Chapter 5 of my new
> book is a 15,000 word overview and analysis of the research in this
> area, with lots more references to chase up.
>
> Yours,
>
> Andy

---

From: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com [mailto:deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrea Kavanaugh
Sent: 23 February 2006 16:52
To: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [delib] who participates question

Hi Kerill,
(Thanks, Jenny, for pointing to our research on the Blacksburg Electronic Village.) 
My work has focused on who participates in civic life, how they use technology to facilitate their participation, and what kinds of tools would better support more interactive and collaborative (i.e., deliberative) participation by the broadest possible representation of citizens.
While we have not addressed specifically the "reasons why an E-Democracy initiative(online forum) failed to attract participants" nor framed the research question as "what citizens want from E-Democracy" we have used political participation theory and social psychological theory and diffusion theory to:
1. model(quantitatively, using path analysis) multiple factors that predict civic engagement and the role of internet use;
2. analyze (quantitatively)associations between different types of individuals (demographics, motivations, psychological attributes), Internet use and civic participation;
3. analyze (qualitatively) features and characteristics of online forums linked to community websites that seem to support discussion and deliberation in the wild;
4. describe design rationale and efforts (forthcoming in Todd Davies and Beth Noveck's book).
We have posted some of these papers on the research website Jenny noted, or more directly:
http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/projects/digitalgov/papers

I would be happy to discuss any of this further with you off the list, and provide copies of other papers, if that's helpful.
Andrea


 At 10:43 AM 2/23/2006, Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:

Thanks for the clarification. People use the term "E-democracy" in many
different ways, and I just wanted to be sure!

There's a useful book published in the 1990s edited by Rosa Tsagarousianou,
Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan titled Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities and
civic networks that details several civic networking projects and some of the
chapters discuss issues of success and failure.

Andrea Kavanaugh's research on the Blackbsburg, Virginia civic network might
also provide some information in the vein you seek, although I'm not 100% sure
of that. (Her URL is http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan/Home).

My sense is that there's not much published work on why people don't
participate. Vince Price and Joe Cappella have a manuscript (maybe published)
about who doesn't show up for online forums to discuss political topics (as
part of an experiment). That research does not involve local officials, but it
might give you some idea of who is likely to participate and who is not. You
can email Vince Price (vprice@...) or Joe Cappella
(jcappella@...) to request a copy of the manuscript if you can't
find it published.

Good luck,
~Jenny




> In terms of my research E-Democracy is the use of an online forum to
> facilitate an online participatory democratic space for citizens to engage
> with local government around local policy decision making.
>   Regards
>   Kerill
> deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>   There are 2 messages in this issue.
>
> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. Online forum
> From: "kerilldunne"
> 2. Re: Online forum
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
> From: "kerilldunne"
> Subject: Online forum
>
> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> following:
>
> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
> Many Thanks
> Kerill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
> Subject: Re: Online forum
>
> Hi Kerill,
>
> When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Jenny
>
>
>> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
>> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
>> following:
>>
>> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
>> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>>
>> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>>
>> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>>
>> Many Thanks
>> Kerill
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Thanks for the clarification. People use the term "E-democracy" in many
different ways, and I just wanted to be sure!

There's a useful book published in the 1990s edited by Rosa Tsagarousianou,
Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan titled Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities and
civic networks that details several civic networking projects and some of the
chapters discuss issues of success and failure.

Andrea Kavanaugh's research on the Blackbsburg, Virginia civic network might
also provide some information in the vein you seek, although I'm not 100% sure
of that. (Her URL is http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan/Home).

My sense is that there's not much published work on why people don't
participate. Vince Price and Joe Cappella have a manuscript (maybe published)
about who doesn't show up for online forums to discuss political topics (as
part of an experiment). That research does not involve local officials, but it
might give you some idea of who is likely to participate and who is not. You
can email Vince Price (vprice@...) or Joe Cappella
(jcappella@...) to request a copy of the manuscript if you can't
find it published.

Good luck,
~Jenny




> In terms of my research E-Democracy is the use of an online forum to
> facilitate an online participatory democratic space for citizens to engage
> with local government around local policy decision making.
>   Regards
>   Kerill
> deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>   There are 2 messages in this issue.
>
> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. Online forum
> From: "kerilldunne"
> 2. Re: Online forum
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
> From: "kerilldunne"
> Subject: Online forum
>
> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> following:
>
> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
> Many Thanks
> Kerill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
> Subject: Re: Online forum
>
> Hi Kerill,
>
> When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Jenny
>
>
>> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
>> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
>> following:
>>
>> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
>> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>>
>> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>>
>> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>>
>> Many Thanks
>> Kerill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Thanks for the clarification. People use the term "E-democracy" in many
different ways, and I just wanted to be sure!

There's a useful book published in the 1990s edited by Rosa Tsagarousianou,
Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan titled Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities and
civic networks that details several civic networking projects and some of the
chapters discuss issues of success and failure.

Andrea Kavanaugh's research on the Blackbsburg, Virginia civic network might
also provide some information in the vein you seek, although I'm not 100% sure
of that. (Her URL is http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan/Home).

My sense is that there's not much published work on why people don't
participate. Vince Price and Joe Cappella have a manuscript (maybe published)
about who doesn't show up for online forums to discuss political topics (as
part of an experiment). That research does not involve local officials, but it
might give you some idea of who is likely to participate and who is not. You
can email Vince Price (vprice@...) or Joe Cappella
(jcappella@...) to request a copy of the manuscript if you can't
find it published.

Good luck,
~Jenny




> In terms of my research E-Democracy is the use of an online forum to
> facilitate an online participatory democratic space for citizens to engage
> with local government around local policy decision making.
>   Regards
>   Kerill
> deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>   There are 2 messages in this issue.
>
> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. Online forum
> From: "kerilldunne"
> 2. Re: Online forum
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
> From: "kerilldunne"
> Subject: Online forum
>
> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> following:
>
> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
> Many Thanks
> Kerill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
> Subject: Re: Online forum
>
> Hi Kerill,
>
> When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Jenny
>
>
>> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
>> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
>> following:
>>
>> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
>> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>>
>> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>>
>> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>>
>> Many Thanks
>> Kerill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> University at Albany, SUNY
> 1400 Washington Ave.
> Albany, NY 12222
> 518-442-4873
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There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Online forum
From: "kerilldunne"
2. Re: Online forum
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"


________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:50 -0000
From: "kerilldunne"
Subject: Online forum

Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
following:

• An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
(online forum) failed to attract participants.

• An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy

Please email me at: kerilldunne@...

Many Thanks
Kerill






________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:09:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley"
Subject: Re: Online forum

Hi Kerill,

When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?

Thanks,
~Jenny


> Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
> quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
> following:
>
> • An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
> (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
> • An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
> Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
> Many Thanks
> Kerill
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Hi Kerill,

When you say "E-democracy" what do you mean?

Thanks,
~Jenny


>     Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
>  quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
>  following:
>
>  •      An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
>         (online forum) failed to attract participants.
>
>  •      An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy
>
>  Please email me at: kerilldunne@...
>
>  Many Thanks
>  Kerill
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Does anyone know of any empirical studies (qualitative or
quantitative) which use a sample of citizens to do either of the
following:

• An examination into the reasons why an E-Democracy initiative
        (online forum) failed to attract participants.

• An examination of what citizens want from E-Democracy

Please email me at: kerilldunne@...

Many Thanks
Kerill

-----Original Message-----
From: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com [mailto:deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicole Spencer
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:29 AM
To: deliberation_research@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [delib] coding online forums--looking for studies

Hi Everyone,

My name is Nicole Spencer, and I was at the online deliberation
conference at Stanford last spring, where I met several of you.
Partners of the Americas organized eight simultaneous online forums
in March of 2005. In addition to surveys and interviews, I've been
working on a coding scheme to measure the extent to which the forums
were deliberative.

Jennifer Stromer-Galley has coded Usenet political discussions, and I
also have a paper by Jakob Linaa Jensen, in which he describes the
results of his coding of two online forums, one a Usenet group and
the other a discussion sponsored by a county government in Denmark.

Linaa Jensen's paper as well as a paper by Davy Janssen and Raphael
Kies distinguish Usenet forums from more organized, or regulated,
online spaces, claiming that the latter tend to be more deliberative.
Since our forums were highly organized, my intention is to compare
the results of the coding with Jenny Stromer-Galley's Usenet group
and Linaa Jensen's findings, although in each case the coding schemes
are slightly different from my own.

Can anyone point me to other published studies of coding online
forums?

Best,

Nicole

--------------------------
Nicole Spencer
Democracy Specialist/Especialista en Democracia
Partners of the Americas/Compañeros de las Américas
1424 K St., NW #700
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-637-6205
Fax: 202-628-3306
www.partners.net

Hi Everyone,

My name is Nicole Spencer, and I was at the online deliberation
conference at Stanford last spring, where I met several of you.
Partners of the Americas organized eight simultaneous online forums
in March of 2005. In addition to surveys and interviews, I've been
working on a coding scheme to measure the extent to which the forums
were deliberative.

Jennifer Stromer-Galley has coded Usenet political discussions, and I
also have a paper by Jakob Linaa Jensen, in which he describes the
results of his coding of two online forums, one a Usenet group and
the other a discussion sponsored by a county government in Denmark.

Linaa Jensen's paper as well as a paper by Davy Janssen and Raphael
Kies distinguish Usenet forums from more organized, or regulated,
online spaces, claiming that the latter tend to be more deliberative.
Since our forums were highly organized, my intention is to compare
the results of the coding with Jenny Stromer-Galley's Usenet group
and Linaa Jensen's findings, although in each case the coding schemes
are slightly different from my own.

Can anyone point me to other published studies of coding online
forums?

Best,

Nicole

--------------------------
Nicole Spencer
Democracy Specialist/Especialista en Democracia
Partners of the Americas/Compañeros de las Américas
1424 K St., NW #700
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-637-6205
Fax: 202-628-3306
www.partners.net

Dear deliberation researchers,

greetings and a happy new year! - I believe this is the first mail on
this list this year

for those of you who are working on their PhDs on online deliberation,
the call below might be interesting.

And keep posting calls, requests, announcements, introductions and
other interstings infos!

Matthias

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From: mailings@... <mailings@...>
Date: Jan 31, 2006 1:07 PM
Subject: [E-Gov] PhD students in eParticipation - Demo-net NoE
To: e-gov@...


RE: Identifying existing PhD student projects in different disciplines
with a topic relevant to eParticipation

<please apologize if you received multiple or unwanted information!>

Dear colleagues and PhD students,

Within the 6th FP of the EC, a network of excellence has been started
by 1st of January: Demo-net (website will be available soon).
One of the issues for setting up a European eParticipation competence
area and for integrating research of the field is to support and
facilitate the networking of PhDs in the field.
The first step of this activity is to find (European) PhD students
currently working on their theses and to create a common web space to
get them known among each others.
For this purpose, we kindly ask you to forward this document to your
PhD candidates in eParticipation (and related topics) within your
environment. Please motivate the students to complete the steps below
and to send the info to emma.eliason@....

For the PhD students: STEPS TO REGISTER AS A PhD STUDENT

Please submit the following details

Phd student (name):
Affiliation  and Department:
Description of the work: <a brief description of the kind of work the
PhD student does that is relevant to Demo-net (one page max.)>
Status: < a note on status (how far into the PhD studies, employment
terms, for example inhouse PhD, industrial contract, or other relevant
information)>
Contact information:
Reasons:
Reasons may include, but are not limited to: interesting topic,
relevant supervisor, relevant department or university, geographical
coverage of Europe, topical coverage of the field, and so on. We shall
be inclusive rather than prohibitive in this step. Do not hesitate to
include candidates you are not quite sure of, we shall make further
investigations.]

Responses should be received by 5th February. Please send the
information directly to emma.eliason@...

Based on the information provided, we will make an initial list of PhD
students. We will then contact each PhD student on the list to get
further details of their work and their interest of participating in
the Demo-net PhD activities. Inquiries and updates of the PhD list
will be done on an ongoing basis. However, a deadline for
participating in the first Demo-net doctoral colloquium (which will be
held in conjunction with EGOV '06) exists: Deadline for the Demo-net
and EGOV 06 PhD colloquium submissions is April 15 (see the web site
of EGOV 06 for further details:
https://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGVInf/Conferences/egov2006).

If you have any questions, please contact Emma Eliason.
We kindly ask you also to spread the info to your colleagues to which
the info may be relevant. Thank you!

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Green Party of Canada 'Shadow Cabinet' adopted a wiki-based process
this month.  (A 'Shadow Cabinet' in Canada is the critics or advocates
who 'shadow' the government's ministers, and if the Party is elected,
are assumed to be the ones to take over their jobs.  It's the most
important political body in the party, making its key policy choices).

http://lp.greenparty.ca/tiki-index.php?page=Motion%20adoption%
20process

This is interesting mostly because of the extreme transparency of such
a process.  While the party is not very notable, this example provides
some rare empirical evidence of online deliberation in a real world
political party.  One seemingly sorely in need of some guidance, as it
seems to be backsliding on some things it was doing right earlier this
year, and seems to be proposing to cripple itself with pretty pictures
and make itself schizophrenic with a "standalone" decision facility )
(not connected to its existing Living Agenda/ Living Platform system).

The article
http://openpolitics.ca/GPC+agenda+protocol
relates an attempt within a G8 political party's major political body
(the Green Party of Canada Shadow Cabinet) to exploit wiki technology
in its internal deliberations.  Background and examples are given:

(a prior art best case)
http://openpolitics.ca/fundraising+committee+meeting+2005-02-01
which is the minutes of a meeting supposedly in the format recommended

(the current practice)
http://lp.greenparty.ca/tiki-index.php?page=motion+adoption+process
or
http://lp.greenparty.ca/tiki-index.php?page=Motion%20adoption%
20process
which explains the motion adoption process of the Shadow Cabinet only,
despite its seemingly generic name.

(another organization's best case)
http://openpolitics.ca/LP+agenda+protocol
which is the fullblown methodology for online meetings advocated by
the creators of this "Living Agenda" that is referred in the above

It's obvious that progress towards a robust online deliberation model
in the Green Party of Canada is "two steps forward, one step back" at
best.  There are some amusing quirks such as the extremely unwise
claim that "In the long run, a stand alone, graphically oriented site
should be produced to better facilitate usage and accessability."

Someone who actually knows something about online deliberation should
get in touch with them and explain that:

- separating your background material from your meeting agenda in two
different databases is a sure way to get the background material left
off the agendas, unlinked, ignored, resulting in much poorer decisions

- "graphically oriented" web services do not "better facilitate usage
and accessibility" if they haven't got the terminology and verbs right
in the first place - putting pictures on a bad model makes it worse by
taking up more screen space.

Perhaps they will wise up and realize that they have it pretty good as
it stands, and should probably train newbies not cripple power users!

Any comment on this can also be added (just click "edit") on this page
http://openpolitics.ca/GPC+agenda+protocol

Oh, and yes, the Green Party of Canada watches openpolitics.ca and
also the http://yahoogroups.com/group/openpolitics where it is very
closely watched.