Read any useful research lately, unanswered research questions
From:
Peter Shane
Date:
Jul 10 16:06 UTC
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To my mind, the most critical research product would be the demonstration of
a relationship (correlation? Causal?) between levels of discourse or
information flow and substantive measures of community success. In other
words, can we buttress the normative case for a robust public sphere with an
empirical demonstration of its utility to human welfare?
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Subject: [Consult] Read any useful research lately, unanswered research
questions
In a future speech at the Sept 29-30 EDem 08 conference in Austria -
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/edem - chock full of researchers I hope to
address
the research/practitioner divide with your input.
1. For those "practitioners" amongst us, what research have you found useful
in
your work over the last year? Share a link if you can.
2. For everyone, what are some of the most important research questions that
need to be explored in the
e-democracy/e-participation/e-campaigning/e-advocacy
fields? What would actually help us do a better job in our work or justify
our
efforts (or tell us we are e-waste ;-)).
As I have shifted from 1/4 practitioner, 3/4 expert to 3/4 practitioner and
1/4
expert (which is 10x more work) I have experienced a greater mismatch
between
what people are researching and what knowledge the field actually needs to
improve democratic participation.
Steven Clift
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