Conference Programme and Slides

Wednesday, 30 June 2010
18:00-19:30 Welcome & Introduction to Keynote Speaker by
Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds & Fiorella de Cindio, Università degli Studi di Milano

Keynote Presentation on Social Politics - lessons from the UK election on Facebook by
Richard Allan, Head of Public Affairs for Facebook Europe

Wine Reception
 
Thursday, 1 July 2010
09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks & History of the OD Conferences by
Ann Machintosh, University of Leeds & Todd Davies, Stanford University
09:15-10:45 Session 1 – Plenary Session
Session Chair: Scott Wright, University of East Anglia
  Panel: Why online deliberation?
Panel Members:
Ricardo Blaug, University of Leeds
Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, University of Technology of Compiègne (tbc)
Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds
Todd Davies, Stanford University
10:45-11:00 Cofee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2a – Parallel Session: Full Research Papers & Discussion
Session Chair: Ann Macintosh, University of Leeds
  John Lawrence, Chris Reed and Mark Snaith
Mixed initiative argument in public deliberation
  Euripidis Loukis and Maria Wimmer
Analysing different models of structured electronic consultation on legislation under formation
  Anna De Liddo and Simon Buckingham Shum
Capturing and representing deliberation in participatory planning practices
  Fiorella De Cindio and Cristian Peraboni
Design issues for building deliberative digital habitats
11:00-12:30 Session 2b – Parallel Session: Full Research Papers & Discussion
Session Chair: Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College
  Lisa Blomgren Bingham
Online deliberation and the United States open government initiative
  Yuri Misnikov
Dialogically-argumentative qualities of political discussion on the Internet in Russia:
Testing the Habermasian conception of communicative action empirically
  Melanie Bicking and Maria Wimmer
Tools and technologies in eParticipation: Insights from project evaluation
  Rean van der Merwe and Anthony Meehan
Direct deliberative governance online: consensual problem solving or accommodated pluralism?
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 3a – Parallel Session: Full Research Papers & Discussion
Session Chair: Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds
  Mayo Fuster
Participation in online communities for the building of digital commons: Wikipedia and the Social Forums
  Todd Graham
"What's Wife Swap Got To Do With it?" Talking politics online
  Weiyu Zhang
Simulating the ideal eDeliberation: The roles of inclusion, equalization and rationalization
  Simon Smith
Mobilising civic resources through eParticipation in the European public sphere: problem-solving, relegitimisation or decoupling?
13:30-15:00 Session 3b – Parallel Session: Full Research Papers & Discussion
Session Chair: Fiorella de Cindio, Università degli Studi di Milano
  Martin Karlsson
What does it take to make online deliberation happen? - A comparative analysis of 28 online discussion
  Nicolas Desquinabo and Nils Ferrand
Online deliberation and impact on decision: A local planning case
  Edith (Idit) Manosevitch
Mapping the practice of online deliberation
15:00-15:30 Cofee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 4 – Plenary Session
Session Chair: Simon Buckingham Shum, Open University
  Panel: Emerging Technologies for Online Deliberation
Panel Members:
Simon Buckingham Shum, Open University
Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras
Anna De Liddo, Open University
Ann Macintosh, University of Leeds
David Price, Debategraph
Chris Reed, University of Dundee
18:00 Social Dinner in Leeds city centre
 
Friday, 2 July 2010
09:00-09:15 OD2010 so far – a summary, by Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College
09:15-10:45 Session 5 – Plenary Session
Session Chair: Yuri Misnikov, University of Leeds
  Panel: Online Deliberation in the Post-Soviet Context
Panel Members:
Taras Kuzmov, Ukraine, e-Democracy Portal
Yuri Misnikov, University of Leeds
Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds
Florian Toepfl, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
10:45-11:00 Cofee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 6a – Parallel Session: Exploratory Research Papers & Discussion
Session Chair: Cristian Peraboni, Università degli Studi di Milano
  Andrew Clark
he use of iphones to gather data on built environment as part of deliberative process by people with functional disabilities
  Michael Trice
Comment fields and content analysis: a means to study interaction on News sites
  Raphaël Kies and Stéphanie Wojcik
European web-deliberation: Lessons from the European Citizens Consultation
  Karen Louise Smith
Ethnographically exploring deliberation through policy pertinent social media in Ontario
  Scott Wright
Political as usual? Revolution, normalisation and a new agenda for online deliberation
11:00-13:00 Session 6b – Parallel Session: Exploratory Research Papers & Discussion
Session Chair: Euripidis Loukis, University of the Aegean
  Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Peter Muhlberger and Nick Webb
Deliberative e-rulemaking decision facilitation: Challenges to enacting real world deliberation
  Cyril Velikanov
Facilitation procedures for written online deliberation: A research and development project in the field of Deliberative Democracy
  Ron Lubensky
Online deliberation as preamble to large-scale facilitated engagement events
  Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Stéphanie Wojcik and Julien Talpin
Participative Frames in deliberative devices
13:00-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:30 Session 7 – Plenary Session
Session Chair: Todd Davies, Stanford University
Discussant: Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds
  Video link up with Beth Noveck – “The view from the White House”
14:30-16:00 Session 8 – Plenary Session
Session Chair: Giles Moss, University of Leeds
  Panel: Strategies for Extending Deliberation
Panel Members:
Jay G. Blumler, University of Leeds
Fiorella de Cindio, Università degli Studi di Milano
David Osimo, The EU Crossroads project
Douglas Schuler, The Evergreen State College
16:00 Close of conference