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Online Deliberation 2005 / DIAC-2005
Stanford University, May 20-22, 2005


Conference Program – locations in parentheses, see map links below
(Latest update: 5/21/05 11:23 a.m. P.D.T.)

Quick links to the schedule for each day:    Friday    Saturday     Sunday
For news: Conference Blog


FRIDAY, MAY 20

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STANFORD MINI-CONFERENCE (Open to all - Room 290, Stanford Law School [Click here for map])

9:00-10:30 [A.1] Introductory Session: The Promise of E-Democracy

(Student Chair: Brendan O'Connor, PIECE/Deme Project, Stanford)

Todd Davies, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford
"Designing an Online Environment for Group Deliberation"

Douglas Rivers, Political Science Department, Stanford
"The State of the Art in Web Surveys"

Mark Cooper, Free Press and Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
"The Political Economy of Regime Change in Technology: From Corporate Commodification and Coercive Hierarchy to Collaborative Production and Deliberative Decision Making"

10:45-11:30 [A.2] Round Table Discussion: Taking Philosophy Public: Technology, Pedagogy, and Deliberative Democracy

(Student Co-Chairs: Aaron Tam and Benjamin Newman, PIECE/Deme Project, Stanford)

Panelists:
Kenneth Taylor, Philosophy Department, Stanford
Joshua Cohen, Political Science and Linguistics and Philosophy Departments, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Fishkin, Communication and Political Science Departments, Stanford

11:30-1:00 Lunch Break

1:00-2:05 [A.3] Panel:  Weblogs: Decentralized Deliberations

(Student Chair: Alex Cochran, PIECE/Deme Project, Stanford)

Demo of Conference Blog: Alexandra Samuel, Angus Reid Consultants

Panelists:
Scott Reents, E-ThePeople.org
Michael Weiksner, E-ThePeople.org    
Lauren Gelman, Center for Internet and Society,Stanford Law School

    2:15-3:15 [A.4] Special Guest Lecture: Douglas Engelbart

    (Student Chair: Brandi Thompson, PIECE/EPA.Net Project, Stanford)

    Introduction: Terry Winograd, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

    Douglas C. Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute
    "Bootstrapping: Accelerating the Evolution of Collective IQ"

    3:15-4:30 [A.5] Panel: Virtual Communication - From 1985 to 2005 and Beyond

    (Student Chair: Andrew Parker, PIECE/Deme Project, Stanford)

    Fred Turner, Communication Department, Stanford
    "The Countercultural Roots of Virtual Community"

    Jeremy Bailenson, Communication Department, Stanford
    "Transformed Social Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality"

    Discussant: Terry Winograd, Computer Science Department, Stanford


    MAIN CONFERENCE (Registration required - all remaining sessions in Buildings 380 and 420 [Click here for map])

    5:15-7:00 [A.6] Plenary: Online Deliberation from Groups to Cities to Nations (420-040)

    Welcoming/Introduction:
    Doug Schuler, Public Sphere Project, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
    Todd Davies, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University

    Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon
    "Project PICOLA (Public Informed Citizen Online Assembly)"

    Peter Shane, Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon
    "Turning GOLD into EPG: Lessons from Low-Tech Democratic Experimentalism for Electronic Rulemaking and Other Ventures in Cyberdemocracy"

    Vincent Price, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
    "Constructing Electronic Interactions Among Citizens, Issue Publics, and Elites: The Healthcare Dialogue Project"

    Beth Noveck, New York Law School
    "The Deliberative Interface"

    7:00-8:30 Dinner reception, sponsored by Center for Deliberative Democracy (420-460 Courtyard)

    8:00-9:00 [A.7] Open Discussion with Doug Engelbart (380-380C)



    SATURDAY, MAY 21


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    8:00-9:00 Continental breakfast (420-050)

    9:00-10:20 [B.1] Plenary: Keynote address (420-040)

    Introduction: Peter Shane, Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon

    James Fishkin, Communication and Political Science Departments, Stanford University
    "Competing Visions of Online Democracy"

    10:30-11:50 [B.2.1] Talks: Public Dialogue and Participation (380-380C)

    Cathryn Staring-Parrish, University of Alberta
    "School Communities, School Decision Making, and ICTs"

    Nicole Spencer, Partners of the Americas
    "Virtual Deliberation: Creating a Shared Hemispheric Agenda"

    Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Stanford Law School
    "Rethinking Regulatory Democracy"

    Ed Bice, The POP
    "A Dialogical Approach to International Education"

    10:30-11:50 [B.2.2] Invited Panel: Making It Real (420-041)

    Armando Arroyo and Michael Levin, Plugged In
    Stephen Bender, AmericanIdealism.com and United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 101
    Marilyn Davis, Deliberate.com
    Michael Shirts, 2020 Democrats and the Principles Project

    10:30-11:50 [B.2.3] Paper Presentations: Content Analysis (380-380X)

    Gilly Leshed, Information Science, Cornell University
    "Silencing the Clatter by Removing Anonymity in a Corporate Online Community"

    Jennifer Stromer-Galley, University at Albany, SUNY
    "Decoding Deliberation"

    Ka-Ping Yee, UC Berkeley, Computer Science Division
    "Content-Centered Discussion Mapping"

    Chair/Discussant: Paul Resnick, School of Information, University of Michigan

    10:30-11:50 [B.2.4] Paper Presentations: Deliberation and Media Law (380-380Y)

    Mark Cooper, Free Press and Stanford Law School
    "The Importance of Collateral Communications and Deliberative Discourse in Building an Internet-Based Media Reform Movement"

    Péter Munkácsi, Hungarian Patent Office
    "Copyleft - Copyright? Challenges for Civil Societies in the New EU Member States from Eastern Europe"

    Eric Goldman, Marquette University Law School
    "Media Regulation and Deliberative Democracy"

    Chair/Discussant: Jackie Phahlamohlaka, Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria

    11:50-1:10 Lunch Served (420-050) [Take food to lunch plenary in 420-040]

    12:00-1:00 [B.3] Plenary: Technologies for Deliberation (420-040)

    (Student Chair: Alla Genkina, School of Informatics, Indiana University)

    Paul Resnick, School of Information, University of Michigan
    "The Design Space of Asynchronous Deliberation Systems"

    Doug Schuler, Public Sphere Project, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
    "Working in the small, striving towards the global"

    Danyel Fisher, Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research
    "Social Accounting Metadata in Online Conversation: Recent Work in NETSCAN and SNARF"

    1:10-2:30 [B.4.1] Talks: Designing for Participation (380-380C)

    David Fono, University of Toronto
    Ronald Baecker, University of Toronto
    “Augmenting Online Chat for Long-Term Knowledge Management”

    Jill Coffin, Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
    “Transfer of open source culture to diverse collaborative communities”

    Henry Williams, VoteFast.org
    “CitizenGroups.org and VoteFast.org”

    Miso Kim, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon
    Sam Zaiss, HCII, Carnegie Mellon
    “Designing PICOLA and Mobile PICOLA”

    1:10-2:30 [B.4.2] Invited Panel: Collaboration Tools for the E-Deliberation Community (420-041)

    Elisabeth Richard, Public Works and Governmnent Services, Canada
    Beth Noveck, New York Law School
    Marianne Law, New York Law School
    Alexandra Samuel, Angus Reid Consultants

    1:10-2:30 [B.4.3] Paper Presentations: Designing for Groups (380-380X)

    Bayle Shanks, Computational Neurobiology Program, University of California, San Diego
    Dana Dahlstrom, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
    “Parliament: a module for parliamentary procedure software”

    Dana Dahlstrom, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
    “Motivations and principles for software supporting face-to-face parliamentary procedure”

    Valerie Landau, ITCD California State University, Monterey Bay
    “Augmenting the Collective IQ”

    Co-Chairs/Discussants: Derrick L. Cogburn, School of Information Studies and Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University, and Jane Finnerup Johnsen, The Danish United Nations Association (UNA-Denmark)

    1:10-2:30 [B.4.4] Paper Presentations: Online Deliberation and Nonvirtual Communities (380-380Y)

    Andrea Kavanaugh, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
    “Detecting and Facilitating Deliberation at the Local Level”

    Russell Stockard, California Lutheran University
    “Is There a Deliberation Divide?”

    Brandi Thompson, Stanford University
    Todd Davies, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University
    Rolando Zeledon, Plugged In
    “Building Digital Bridges: Lessons from Technology Initiatives in East Palo Alto”

    Chair/Discussant: Ezendu Ariwa, Dept of Accounting, Banking and Financial Systems, London Metropolitan University

    2:40-4:00 [B.5.1] Short Workshop: Democratic Renewal (380-380C)

    Joseph Peters and Robert Mariani, Ascentum
    “Democratic Renewal: How online deliberation is transforming the development of public policy”

    2:40-4:00 [B.5.2] Paper Presentations: Opinion Diversity (420-041)

    Bernard Manin, Dept. of politics, New York University
    Azi Lev-on, Dept. of politics, New York University
    “Online Deliberation and Exposure to Opposing Views”

    John Kelly, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University
    Marc Smith, Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research
    Danyel Fisher, Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research
    “Opinion Diversity in Online Political Discussion Networks”

    Warren Sack, Film & Digital Media Department, UC Santa Cruz
    John Kelly, Columbia University, Center on Organizational Innovation
    Michael Dale, Digital Arts New Media Program, UC Santa Cruz
    “Searching the Net for Differences of Opinion”

    Chair/Discussant: James Fishkin, Communication and Political Science Departments, Stanford University

    2:40-4:00 [B.5.3] Paper Presentations: Combining Online and Offline Deliberation (380-380X)

    Alexandra Samuel, Angus Reid Consultants
    "'Found' Engagement: Lessons from Hacktivism and Blogging"

    Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, University of Technology of Compiègne, France
    “Is deliberation on the Internet a democratic improvement for a better governance ?”

    Tomas Ohlin, Telo Konsult
    “Online supported citizen participation in Sweden”

    Chair/Discussant: Russell Stockard, California Lutheran University

    2:40-5:30 [B.5&6.Ex] Extended Workshop: xVRML (380-380Y)

    Jeffrey Sonstein, Department of Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
    “The xVRML Project: Building Web-based 3D virtual environments in XML”

    4:10-5:30 [B.6.1] Demonstrations and Talk: Tools for Political Participation (380-380C)

    Tracy Westen, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
    Elenia Saloutsi, Center for Governmental Studies
    “Digital Democracy Demonstration”

    Brian Sullivan, Public Dialog Systems
    “Presentation of CivicEvolution: An online initiative for practical civic engagement”

    Jane Finnerup Johnsen, The Danish United Nations Association (UNA-Denmark)
    Derrick L. Cogburn, School of Information Studies and Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University
    “Uses and implications of the Internet for democratic participation—An online Collaboratory for participation in the WSIS process”

    David C. James, University of Texas
    "Modeling How People Think About Sustainability" (Talk)

    4:10-5:30 [B.6.2] Paper Presentations: E-Consultation (420-041)

    David Schlosberg, Northern Arizona University
    Stephen Zavestoski, University of San Francisco
    Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
    “Deliberation and Mass Participation in U.S. Regulatory Rulemaking”

    Stuart Shulman, School of Information Sciences and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
    “Whither Deliberation? Mass E-Mail Campaigns and U.S. Regulatory Rulemaking”

    Hossana Twinomurinzi, Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria
    Jackie Phahlamohlaka, Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria
    “Enhancing procedural fairness in administrative action of the Administrative Justice Act of South Africa using web - based Group Support Systems”

    Chair/Discussant: Vincent Price, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania

    4:10-5:30 [B.6.3] Paper Presentations: Designing for Political Engagement (380-380X)

    Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer - FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology
    “Community Interface Design to foster the Political Engagement of Citizens: What can we learn from groupware experiences”

    Matthew W. Wilson, Department of Geography, University of Washington
    Kevin S. Ramsey, Department of Geography, University of Washington
    Timothy L. Nyerges, Department of Geography, University of Washington
    Michael J. Patrick, Department of Geography, University of Washington
    “Design considerations for supporting online, analytic-deliberative, public participation”

    June Woong Rhee, Dept. of Communication, Seoul National University
    Eunmee Kim, Dept. of Communication, Yonsei University
    Taejoon Moon, Dept. of Communication, Seoul National University
    “The Effects of Structural and Regulative Conditions on the Quantity and Quality of Online Deliberation”

    Chair/Discussant: Shanto Iyengar, Communication and Political Science Departments, Stanford University

    5:45-7:15 [B.7] Plenary: Does Better Technology Make Better Citizens? (420-040)

    (Chair: Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer - FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology)
    Arthur Lupia, Political Science Department and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
    “Necessary Conditions for Improving Civic Competence”

    Robert Luskin, Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin
    "Online versus Face-to-Face Deliberation"

    Shanto Iyengar, Communication and Political Science Departments, Stanford University
    Simon Jackman, Political Science Department, Stanford University
    "Technology and Politics: Incentives for Youth Participation"

    Discussant: Alexandra Samuel, Angus Reid Consultants

    7:15-9:00 Dinner reception (420-460 Courtyard) and Birds-of-a-Feather Groups (Various locations)


    SUNDAY, MAY 22


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    8:00-9:00 Continental breakfast (420-050)

    9:00-10:20 [C.1.1] Paper Presentations: Online Facilitation (380-380C)

    Scott Wright, University of East Anglia
    “Moderating Censorship? The Role of the Moderator: Problems and Possibilities”

    Matthias Trénel, Social Science Research Center Berlin
    “Facilitating deliberation online”

    Ray Pingree, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    “Prioritizing Together: Agenda Building in Democratically Structured Deliberation”

    Chair/Discussant: June Woong Rhee, Department of Communication, Seoul National University

    9:00-10:20 [C.1.2] Paper Presentations: Online Collaboration and Decision Making (380-380Y)

    Lori Herod, OISE/UT, Dept of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
    “Deliberating Online in Education”

    Kate Raynes-Goldie, Habitat New Media Lab, Canadian Film Centre
    David Fono, University of Toronto
    “Wiki Use by Political Parties: A Case Study”

    Gunnar Ristroph, Caltech
    “Case Studies of Online Deliberation: The Debian Project and Wikipedia”

    Chair/Discussant: Elisabeth Richard, Public Works and Government Services Canada

    9:00-11:50 [C.1&2.Ex] Extended Workshop: XML for Deliberation (380-380Y)

    Todd Davies, Stanford University
    “Developing an XML Format for Deliberation”

    10:30-11:50 [C.2.1] Short Workshop: Online Deliberation in the Government of Canada (380-380C)

    Elisabeth Richard, Public Works and Government Services Canada
    “Online Deliberation in the Government of Canada: Organizing the Back Office”

    10:30-11:50 [C.2.2] Paper Presentations: Technology and Voting (380-380X)

    Hélène Michel, IREGE - Université de Savoie
    “Cognitive maps of e-voting : An exploratory approach of citizens representations”

    Karen Smith, School Of Communication, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
    “Democratic Renewal and Rationalization: Mobilizing Citizens Before Technology”

    Katherine Murray, Dept. of Communication , Stanford U
    Daniel Schneider, Dept. of Communication , Stanford U
    “Young voters and political web sites as means of deliberation. How young Americans and Germans use political web sites to get information, participate in discussions and get involved in politics”

    Chair/Discussant: David Schlosberg, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University

    11:50-1:10 Lunch (420-050) [Take lunches to plenary discussion in 420-040]

    12:00-1:00 [C.3] Plenary: Discussion About Forming a Society for Online Deliberation (420-040)

    1:10-2:30 [C.4.1] Demonstrations: Tools for Groups(380-380C)

    Matthew Easterday, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
    Jordan Kanarek, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
    Maralee Harrell, Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University
    “Design Requirements of Argument Mapping Software for Teaching Deliberation”

    Ben Hill, School of Information Management & Systems at UC Berkeleley
    Sarita Yardi, School of Information Management & Systems at UC Berkeley
    “VERN”

    Gunnar Ristroph, Caltech
    “Burgess: Decision Making on the Web”

    Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org
    “Maintain an open source project collaboratively with Twiki”

    1:10-2:30 [C.4.2] Paper Presentations and Talk: E-Democracy:Prospects and Approaches (380-380X)

    Kjell Ohlsson, Linköping University
    Hans Persson, Institute for Humane Technology, Bollnäs
    Olle Östlin, Institute for Humane Technology, Bollnäs
    “The Bollnäs’ model for testing, evaluation and design of information and communication technology services”

    Cliff Lampe, School of Information, University of Michigan
    “Talking politics on the side: political conversation on Slashdot”

    Scott Aikens, AikensPro Strategy
    “E-Democracy in America: Then and Now” (Talk)

    Chair/Discussant: Warren Sack, Film and Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

    1:10-4:00 [C.4&5.Ex] Extended Workshop: Democracy Lab (380-380Y)

    James Knauer, Center for Civic Life, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
    Lawrence Ross, Center for Civic Life, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
    Kimberly Powell, Pennsylvania State University
    “Democracy Lab: An Online Deliberative Learning Community for High Schools and Colleges”

    2:40-4:00 [C.5.1] Short Workshop: Parliamentary Procedure Software (380-380C)

    Dana Dahlstrom, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
    Gunnar Ristroph, California Institute of Technology
    Doug Schuler, Public Sphere Project for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
    Bayle Shanks, Computational Neurobiology Program, University of California, San Diego
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    2:40-4:00 [C.5.2] Paper Presentations: Games, Simulations, and Virtual Environments (380-380X)

    Hélène Michel, IREGE Université de Savoie
    Domique Kreziak, IREGE Université de Savoie
    “Can simulation games influence citizen's attitude and behaviour vis-à-vis online public debate?”

    Michael Meehan, Stanford University
    “Virtual Property and the Rule of Law”

    Mark Phair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine
    Adam Bliss, Universisty of California, Berkeley
    “PerlNomic: Rule Making and Enforcement in Digital Shared Spaces”

    Chair/Discussant: Mark Cooper, Free Press and Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School

    4:00-4:30 [C.6] Closing (420-040)

    4:30- Informal excursion to San Francisco

     
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