HCC: Medium: Social Search and Deliberation in Digital Political Information and Collaboration Domains

HCC：媒介：数字政治信息和协作领域的社会搜索和审议

• 批准号: 1064852
• 负责人: Scott Robertson
• 金额: $ 94.85万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1064852&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Medium; Social; Search; Deliberation

Participation in political debate and deliberation is critical to democracy. Browsing political material is a direct way of acquiring knowledge about civic activities, the operations of government, and the issues of the day. This project examines a fast growing, but little understood new type of political participation: online information seeking, deliberation and decision making in the context of Web 2.0 technologies. The research includes three intertwined threads of study: (a) user-centered design of enhancements to a search/browse tool and a cross-application, user-generated interlinkage browser; (b) laboratory studies of how potential voters browse and make decisions in social computing environments; and (c) longitudinal observation of users of novel, socially-enabled political search/browse tools through at least three U.S. election cycles.Intellectual Merit: The central research question is how exposure to and participation in social networking activities influences information seeking and decision making in politics. An important practical outcome will be search/browse tools for civic participation and political discourse that are integrated with the social networking environments that many people now use every day. The research will contribute to theories of deliberation in the domain of digital politics and to the design of tools for exposing and navigating the structure of online political dialog.Broader Impacts: Tools and theory developed from this project will provide contexts that broaden opportunities for participation in civic life in the 21st century, thereby helping to bridge the digital divide. The work will also benefit education through the training of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.

参与政治辩论和审议对民主至关重要。浏览政治材料是获取有关公民活动，政府行动以及当今问题的直接方式。该项目研究了一种快速增长但几乎没有理解的新类型的政治参与：在Web 2.0技术的背景下，在线信息寻求，审议和决策。该研究包括三个相互交织的研究线程：（a）以用户为中心的搜索/浏览工具的增强功能以​​及交叉应用，用户生成的InterLinkage浏览器； （b）有关潜在选民如何在社交计算环境中浏览和决策的实验室研究； （c）通过至少三个美国选举周期对新颖的，具有社会支持的政治搜索/浏览工具的用户的纵向观察。构成功绩：中心研究问题是，参与社交网络活动的暴露和参与如何影响政治中的信息寻求和决策。一个重要的实际结果将是搜索/浏览工具，用于公民参与和政治话语，这些工具与许多人现在每天都使用的社交网络环境融为一体。这项研究将有助于在数字政治领域的审议理论以及揭露和导航在线政治对话结构的工具的设计。Broader的影响：该项目开发的工具和理论将提供环境，以扩大21世纪参与公民生活的机会，从而帮助桥接数字鸿沟。 这项工作还将通过培训研究生和博士后研究人员的培训来使教育受益。