Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda

TL;DR

This paper proposes a multidisciplinary research agenda for designing online deliberative processes and technologies, emphasizing collaboration among social sciences, computer science, and HCI to advance understanding and development.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for online deliberation research, fostering dialogue across disciplines and establishing a community for ongoing collaboration.

Findings

Defined theoretical building blocks for online deliberation

Identified key research questions for the CHI community

Built a network of researchers, industry, and public sector stakeholders

Abstract

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.