Category Archives: deliberation

What they are saying’: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS): Political Issue analysis in an age of the ‘data deluge’

By Craig | Published: July 7, 2010

(This new seeding project has just been accepted for funding from the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne. Led by VeRSI and myself, it is a short project with results available towards the end of the year or early next year). Summary of Proposal The Internet is recognised as a [...]

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Intelligence (squared)

By Craig | Published: February 26, 2010

A interesting crew from Sydney called Intelligence Squared that run deliberative Town-Hall style debates and online forums.  The first one in Melbourne is on the Nuclear Energy debate on March 4 and is run in conjunction with the new Wheeler Centre.

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The value of slow thinking?

By Craig | Published: June 23, 2009

(thanks to that wonderful blog net.effect for the image)

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Podcast/Press Release: ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’ report

By Craig | Published: June 1, 2009

JISC recently released a report on ‘Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World’. The aim of the report is to critically assess recent Web-based developments commonly termed ‘Web 2.0′ and assess them in relation to education and pedagogical practice. The report is available on-line and in hard-copy; plus some of the key findings are discussed [...]

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Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009

By Craig | Published: May 21, 2009

On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that [...]

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Soap Box Project

By Craig | Published: April 11, 2008

This project led by Dr Sally Young at the University of Melbourne will be of interest to those who wish to understand the history of political advertising in Australia. Politicians and members of the public would once stand atop a soapbox in order to shout their message across to an audience. Now they use a [...]

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Online Democratic Deliberation in a Time of Information Abundance

By Craig | Published: September 14, 2007

This article of mine recently appeared in the journal, Fast Capitalism. The intensified use of the Internet by civil society groups and governments for political purposes has left many questions unexplained—especially in terms of the Internet’s effects upon deliberative democratic processes. The Internet was first imagined as a means to revitalize deliberative processes. However, poor [...]

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