A Critical Review of Crowd-Scale Online Deliberation Technologies
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A Critical Review of Crowd-Scale Online Deliberation Technologies
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 03 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 03 May 2017
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Date Written: September 4, 2015
Abstract
This paper provides a short critical review of crowd-scale online deliberation support technology. It distinguishes five main types, including time-centric, topic-centric, question-centric, debate-centric, and argument-centric, and outlines their strengths and weaknesses in terms of the comprehensiveness and quality of the content, as well as in terms of the ability to manage and harvest such deliberations.
Keywords: deliberation, crowds, collective intelligence
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Klein, Mark, A Critical Review of Crowd-Scale Online Deliberation Technologies (September 4, 2015). MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5143-15, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2658811 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2658811
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