Todd Davies

Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program

Associate Director and Lecturer

Stanford, CA 94305-2150

United States

http://www.stanford.edu/~davies

Center for the Study of Language and Information

Stanford, CA 94305-4115

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1.

A Logical Approach to Reasoning by Analogy

In John P. McDermott (Editor), Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-87) (Milan, August 23–28), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1987, pp. 264–270
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Feb 2013
Todd Davies and Stuart Russell
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program and University of California, Berkeley
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analogical reasoning, determination rules, generalization, single instance induction, learning, first order logic

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Book Review of Susan Greenfield's 'Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark On Our Brains'

New Media & Society, October 2016, 18(9): 2139-2141, first published on June 6, 2016, doi:10.1177/1461444816652614
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 14 Sep 2016
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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digital technology, media neuroscience, media psychology, technology policy

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The Blossoming Field of Online Deliberation

ONLINE DELIBERATION: DESIGN, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE, pp. 1-19, Todd Davies, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, ed., CSLI Publications/University of Chicago Press, October 2009
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 Jan 2020
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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online deliberation, deliberative democracy, computer-mediated communication, political communication, collaboration systems

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Digital Rights and Freedoms: A Framework for Surveying Users and Analyzing Policies

Luca Maria Aiello and Daniel McFarland (Editors), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2014 (Barcelona, November 10-13) , Springer LNCS Series, 2014
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2014
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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digital rights, privacy, data portability, free software, open source, participatory design, user self-governance, freedom of information, net neutrality, user attitudes

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Online Deilberation Design: Choices, Criteria, and Evidence

DEMOCRACY IN MOTION: EVALUATING THE PRACTICE AND IMPACT OF DELIBERATIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, pp. 103-131, Tina Nabatchi, John Gastil, G. Michael Weiksner, Matt Leighninger, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Todd Davies and Reid Chandler
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program and Stanford University
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online deliberation, forum design, rich media, lean media, anonymous, identifiable, participation, co-evolve

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Community Democracy Online: A Preliminary Report from East Palo Alto

American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, 2002
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2013
Todd Davies, Benjamin Sywulka, Randy Saffold and Roma Jhaveri
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, California State University, East Bay, Student Union and Stanford University
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communities and technologies, digital divide, e-democracy

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Analogy

CSLI Informal Notes Series IN-CSLI-85-4, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, November 1985
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 10 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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analogical reasoning, analogy, validity, determination

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Equality of Participation Online versus Face to Face: An Analysis of the Community Forum Deliberative Methods Demonstration

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2015
Eric Showers, Nathan Tindall and Todd Davies
Stanford University - Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University - Center for the Study of Language and Information and Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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public deliberation, participation equality, discursive equality, e-participation

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A Survey of Architectures for Distributed Artificial Intelligence

SRI International - Artificial Intelligence Center Technical Note 424, June 1988
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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distributed artificial intelligence, testbeds, computer architecture, multi-agent systems, parallel computing

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Determination, Uniformity, and Relevance: Normative Criteria for Generalization and Reasoning by Analogy

ANALOGICAL REASONING: PERSPECTIVES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY, pp. 227-250, David H. Helman, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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determination rules, analogical reasoning, generalization, relevance, uniformity, value of information, learning

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Community Forum Deliberative Methods Demonstration: Evaluating Effectiveness and Eliciting Public Views on Use of Evidence - Final Report

AHRQ Publication No. 14-EHC007-EF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, November 2014
Number of pages: 316 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Kristin Carman, Maureen Maurer, Coretta Mallery, Grace Wang, Steven Garfinkel, Jennifer Richmond, Dierdre Gilmore, Amy Windham, Manshu Yang, Rikki Mangrum, Marge Ginsburg, Shoshanna Sofaer, Jessica Fernandez, Marthe Gold, Ela Pathak-Sen, Todd Davies, Alice Siu, James Fishkin, Mark Rosenberg and Allison Fratto
American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, Center for Healthcare Decisions, CUNY Baruch College, University of Maryland, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York, Government of the United Kingdom - National Health Service (NHS), Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University, American Institutes for Research and Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Students
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Public deliberation, Public engagement, Citizens' jury, Public opinion, Evidence-based medicine, Comparative effectiveness research, United States

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Probability

Edited and Enhanced Transcript, MINDS AND MACHINES Video Lecture Series, Symbolic Systems, Program, Stanford University, Autumn 2019
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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probability theory, probability judgment, foundations of probability, heuristics and biases

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Political Ideals and Beliefs About the Distribution of Wealth and Income: A Cross-Cultural Survey of University Students

International Society of Political Psychology 22nd Annual Meeting, 1999
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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inequality, wealth, income, distributive justice, fairness, political psychology, political cognition

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Lessons from the East Palo Alto Community Network

Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement (PIECE) Report; 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation (OD 2005/DIAC 2005), May 2005
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 22 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2013
Brandi Thompson, Todd Davies and Rolando Zeledon
Stanford University, Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program and Plugged In
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community networks, digital divide, community technology, civic engagement

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An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design

ONLINE DELIBERATION: DESIGN, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE, pp. 275-292, Todd Davies, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, ed., CSLI Publications/University of Chicago Press, October 2009
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Todd Davies, Brendan T. O'Connor, Alex Cochran, Jonathan Effrat, Andrew Parker, Benjamin Newman and Aaron Tam
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford University and Stanford University
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online deliberation, groupware, social software, collaboration, group decision making

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The Message or the Messenger? Inferring Virality and Diffusion Structure from Online Petition Signature Data

To appear in Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra J. Mashhadi, and Taha Yasseri (Editors), Social Informatics: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017 (Oxford, UK, September 13-15), Springer LNCS, 2017
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Aug 2017
Chi Ling Chan, Justin Lai, Brian Hooi and Todd Davies
Symbolic Systems Program, Symbolic Systems Program, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Machine Learning and Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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petitions, virality, broadcast, diffusion

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Online Deliberation and #CivicTech: A Symposium

Journal of Deliberative Democracy 17(1):76-77, 2021, https://doi.org/10.16997/10.16997/jdd.988
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 07 May 2021
Weiyu Zhang, Todd Davies and Anna Przybylska
Department of Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore (NUS), Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program and Depaartment of Sociology, University of Warsaw
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platform, nudge, e-deliberation, gov tech, civic tech, online deliberation

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Coordination Technology for Active Support Networks: Context, Needfinding, and Design

AI & Society, 33(1):113-123, February 2018, DOI:10.1007/s00146-017-0778-4
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2018
Stanley Rosenschein and Todd Davies
Stanford University - Center for the Study of Language and Information and Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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coordination, social prompting, communicative action, attitude-behavior gap, intention-action gap, active support networks

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Intuitive Preference Aggregation: Tests of Independence and Consistency

Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association Annual Meetings, Nashville, TN, 2003 , Society for Social Choice and Welfare 7th International Meeting, 2004
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2013
Todd Davies and Raja Shah
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program and Stanford University
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Arrow's impossibility theorem, behavioral social choice, preference aggregation, social preference

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Comparison of Frames for Choosing a Social Welfare Function

Poster Session, Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, 1996
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Mar 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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distributive justice, experimental ethics, original position, impartial spectator, veil of ignorance, maximiin rule, utilitarianism

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Lexicographic Voting and Party Positioning Across Multiple Elections

American Political Science Association 2015 Annual Meeting - Poster Session
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2015
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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lexicographic voting, noncompensatory rules, behavioral decision theory, electoral competition, party positioning, utilitarianism

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A Behavioral Perspective on Technology Evolution and Domain Name Regulation

Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 1-25, 2008
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Feb 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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behavioral law and economics, domain names, ICANN, public goods, intellectual property, psychology and law

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Commonsense Metaphysics and Lexical Semantics

Computational Linguistics, Volume 13, Numbers 3-4, July-December 1987, pp. 241–250
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Feb 2013
Jerry Hobbs, William Croft, Todd Davies, Douglas Edwards and Kenneth Laws
University of Southern California, University of New Mexico, Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Independent and Independent
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commonsense knowledge, lexical semantics, metaphysics, folk theories, computational linguistics

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Confidence Following Choice

Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, August 1995
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 07 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2016
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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confidence, probability judgment, forced choice

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Radical Contingency in Sharing Behavior and its Consequences

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 821, December 2005
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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homo economicus, economic pluralism, behavioral economics, behavioral game theory

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Community Forum Deliberative Methods Demonstration: Evaluating Effectiveness and Eliciting Public Views on Use of Evidence - Executive Summary

AHRQ Publication No. 14-EHC007-1-EF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, November 2013
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Kristin Carman, Maureen Maurer, Coretta Mallery, Grace Wang, Steven Garfinkel, Jennifer Richmond, Dierdre Gilmore, Amy Windham, Manshu Yang, Rikki Mangrum, Jessica Fernandez, Mark Rosenberg, Allison Fratto, Marge Ginsburg, Shoshanna Sofaer, Marthe Gold, Ela Pathak-Sen, Todd Davies, Alice Siu and James Fishkin
American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, University of Maryland, American Institutes for Research, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Students, Center for Healthcare Decisions, CUNY Baruch College, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York, Government of the United Kingdom - National Health Service (NHS), Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Center for Deliberative Democracy and Stanford University
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Public deliberation, Public engagement, Citizens' jury, Public opinion, Evidence-based medicine, Comparative effectiveness research, United States

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Computers and Community in East Palo Alto: Report on the Survey Conducted Among East Palo Alto Residents Regarding Their Computer Usage and Community Involvement Prior to the Launch of the East Palo Alto Community Network

Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement (PIECE) Report, March 2003
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2013
Benjamin Sywulka, Todd Davies, Randy Saffold and Roma Jhaveri
Stanford University, Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, California State University, East Bay, Student Union and Stanford University
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community networks, digital divide, community technology

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Effects of Available Time on Confidence Following Choice

Poster Session, Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting, 1997
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Mar 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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confidence, probability judgment, forced choice procedures, time pressure, elicitation methods

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Digital Democracy: Episode IV — A New Hope: How a Corporation for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society

Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV), 1(1), Article No. 6, February 2020
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
John Gastil and Todd Davies
Pennsylvania State University and Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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Civic engagement, deliberative democracy, government consultation, nonprofit technology, political participation, public media

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Effectiveness of Public Deliberation Methods for Gathering Input on Issues in Healthcare: Findings from a Randomized Trial

Social Science & Medicine 133:11-20, May 2015; DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.03.024
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Feb 2018
Kristin Carman, Coretta Mallery, Maureen Maurer, Grace Wang, Steven Garfinkel, Manshu Yang, Dierdre Gilmore, Amy Windham, Marge Ginsburg, Shoshanna Sofaer, Marthe Gold, Ela Pathak-Sen, Todd Davies, Joanna Siegel, Rikki Mangrum, Jessica Fernandez, Jennifer Richmond, James Fishkin and Alice Siu
American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, American Institutes for Research, Center for Healthcare Decisions, CUNY Baruch College, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College of New York, Government of the United Kingdom - National Health Service (NHS), Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Government of the United States of America - Center for Outcomes and Evidence, American Institutes for Research, University of Maryland, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Stanford University and Center for Deliberative Democracy
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Public deliberation, Public engagement, Citizens' jury, Public opinion, Evidence-based medicine, Comparative effectiveness research, United States

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Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design

Douglas Schuler, Liberating Voices, MIT Press, 2008, pp. 384-386, Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 20th Anniversary - Conference Supplement, pp. 169-170, 2006
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Todd Davies, Benjamin Newman, Brendan T. O'Connor, Aaron Tam and Leo Perry
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and Stanford University
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document-centered discussion, annotation systems, web-based collaboration, online deliberation

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The Primacy of Intention and the Duty to Truth: A Gandhi-Inspired Argument for Retranslating Hiṃsā and Ahiṃsā, with Connections to History, Ethics, and Civil Resistance

A shortened and edited version of this essay, focusing on language-related arguments, will appear as Chapter 12 in V.K. Kool & R. Agrawal, Eds., Gandhi’s Wisdom. Palgrave Macmillan, in press.
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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himsa, ahimsa, violence, nonviolence, maleficence, beneficence, Gandhi

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'Groupware for Groups': Problem-Driven Design in Deme

Position Paper, Beyond Threaded Conversation Workshop at CHI 2005 (Portland, Oregon, April 3), 2005
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 06 Mar 2013
Todd Davies, Brendan T. O'Connor, Alex Cochran and Andrew Parker
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and Stanford University
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groupware, online deliberation, threaded conversation, problem-driven design, community groups, grassroots

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Remarks for Grassroots Discussion Panel on Civil Society and Regulation

Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Bejamin De Cleen, and Nico Carpentier (Editors), Alternatives on Media Content, Journalism, and Regulation: The Grassroots Discussion Panels at the 2007 ICA Conference (San Francisco, May 24-28), Tartu University Press, 2007, pp. 63-66
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Feb 2013
Todd Davies
Stanford University - Symbolic Systems Program
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civil society, grassroots organizations, technology activism, online deliberation