Digital Deliberation: Searching and Deciding About How to Vote

数字审议：搜索并决定如何投票

• 批准号: 0535036
• 负责人: Scott Robertson
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0535036&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digital; Deliberation; Searching; Deciding; About

A considerable amount of political activity is moving onto the Internet. This includes information dissemination by candidates, parties, issue advocates, campaigns, governments, news and opinion media, and individuals which is directed at citizens and potential voters. It also includes active participation by citizens in interactive digital environments mediated by social software such as blogs, opinion forums, discussion groups, etc. While there has been considerable study of the large scale demographics of this movement primarily using survey methods, there have been few close up studies of individuals involved in digital democracy using experimental and observational methods. There has also been a lack of empirical user studies in support of the design of software interfaces to support digital democracy. In this project, people will be observed closely as they use digital materials to make voting decisions. A series of empirical studies using real online materials in mock voting exercises will examine user behavior in this domain. Study issues include the conceptual categories that people use to understand political information, browsing and decision making strategies, and personalization. Another set of studies will examine more social uses of digital information. Questions include interest in sharing profile information, annotations, and opinions with others,impact of shared information on decision making, and the interaction of privacy and information sharing. All studies will compare participants from diverse backgrounds and situations. Information gathered in the empirical studies will be used to help design a Voter Information Portal that organizes political information for citizens and helps them make decisions. The portal would use Internet information found by commonly-used search engines and allow voters to reorganize it into user-centered categories, annotate it, and share it. Issues of privacy and ethics in this context will be examined.Intellectual MeritThe intellectual merit of the project involves the development of an understanding of how people wish to use, and do use, emerging technologies to learn, remember, reason about, and make decisions in the context of civic and government activities. ImpactThere is very broad impact of the proposal in that resulting systems couldinfluence citizens of many backgrounds and circumstances, and can be utilized by developers and implementation decision makers ingovernments, private organizations, and academic settings. The educational goals of the project include the production of digital government systems that encourage learning about civic issues by citizens. The goal of making digital government work for all citizens, with specific attention to issues of equity and the digital divide, addresses diversity goals.

大量的政治活动正在进入互联网上。这包括候选人，当事人，发行倡导者，竞选，政府，新闻和舆论媒体的信息传播，以及针对公民和潜在选民的个人。它还包括公民积极参与由社交软件（例如博客，意见论坛，讨论小组等）介导的交互式数字环境。尽管已经对这一运动的大规模人口统计进行了大量研究，主要使用调查方法进行了大规模的人口统计，但很少有对使用实验和观察方法参与数字民主的人的特写研究。还缺乏经验用户研究来支持软件界面的设计以支持数字民主。在这个项目中，人们将在使用数字材料做出投票决定时仔细观察。在模拟投票练习中使用真实在线材料的一系列实证研究将检查该领域中的用户行为。研究问题包括人们用来了解政治信息，浏览和决策策略以及个性化的概念类别。另一项研究将研究数字信息的更多社会用途。问题包括与他人共享个人资料信息，注释和意见的兴趣，共享信息对决策的影响以及隐私和信息共享的相互作用。所有研究将比较来自不同背景和情况的参与者。在实证研究中收集的信息将用于帮助设计一个选民信息门户网站，该信息门户网站为公民组织政治信息并帮助他们做出决定。该门户网站将使用常用搜索引擎发现的互联网信息，并允许选民重组为以用户为中心的类别，注释并共享。在这种情况下，将研究隐私和道德问题。智能值得该项目的智力优点涉及对人们希望使用，使用，新兴技术来学习，记住，理解，推理和在公民和政府活动的背景下做出决策的理解。影响力是该提案的广泛影响，因为由此产生的系统可能会使许多背景和环境的公民使用，并且可以被开发人员和实施决策者插入，私人组织和学术环境所利用。该项目的教育目标包括生产数字政府系统，这些系统鼓励公民学习公民问题。使数字政府为所有公民工作的目标，特别关注公平问题和数字鸿沟，它涉及多样性目标。