Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda
This work addresses the challenge of integrating diverse disciplines to advance online deliberation research, but it is incremental as it focuses on agenda-setting rather than novel solutions.
The paper tackles the need for multidisciplinary research on online deliberative processes and technologies by establishing a SIG to foster dialogue between social, political, cognitive sciences, and computer science fields, resulting in the definition of theoretical building blocks, a research agenda for the CHI community, and a network of stakeholders.
There has been rapidly growing interest in studying and designing online deliberative processes and technologies. This SIG aims at providing a venue for continuous and constructive dialogue between social, political and cognitive sciences as well as computer science, HCI, and CSCW. Through an online community and a modified version of world cafe discussions, we contribute to the definition of the theoretical building blocks, the identification of a research agenda for the CHI community, and the network of individuals from academia, industry, and the public sector who share interests in different aspects of online deliberation.