Democratic Interfaces - Decision-Making Tools for Online Communities

dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.advisorBotero, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorFatland, Eirik
dc.contributor.departmentMedia Laben
dc.contributor.departmentMedialaboratoriofi
dc.contributor.schoolTaiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulufi
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Arts, Design and Architectureen
dc.contributor.supervisorKommonen, Kari-Hans
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-12T12:27:22Z
dc.date.available2014-02-12T12:27:22Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstract’Democratic interfaces’ presents a design exploration into mobilizing the potential of the Internet for enabling newand more inclusive forms of democracy. Drawing on online deliberation research, the thesis argues that successful online democracy will need to facilitate open and informed discussion (deliberation) as a prerequisite for democratic decision-making. The potential for deliberative democracy on the Internetis explored through proposed user interface designs for online deliberation software:WebTing, a tool to facilitate democratic assemblies for online communities; and the citizensconstitution.org website, a campaign for a more inclusive constitutional process in the European Union. Further proposals are annotated as a pattern language and documented as they appear in the design process. The outcomes of this thesis work are relevant for the design and study of communtiy-enabling software, and in particular online deliberation and discussion software. Methods used are characteristic of interaction design, including information-gathering, sketching, prototypingand usability evaluation. Particular attention is paid to the challenges of designing community-enabling software, and to the normative influence of user interface design on user behaviour.These considerations suggest a need for new design methods independent of the HCI tradition, focused on user-to-user rather than user-to-system interaction, and on a prescriptive rather than reactive design practice.en
dc.format.extent107
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/12481
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-201312108082
dc.language.isoenen
dc.programmeMA in New Mediaen
dc.programmeUuden median maisteriohjelmafi
dc.subject.keywordOnline deliberationen
dc.subject.keywordsocial softwareen
dc.subject.keyworde-democracyen
dc.subject.keywordvirtual communitiesen
dc.subject.keywordinteraction designen
dc.titleDemocratic Interfaces - Decision-Making Tools for Online Communitiesen
dc.typeG2 Pro gradu, diplomityöfi
dc.type.ontasotMaster's thesisen
dc.type.ontasotMaisterin opinnäytefi

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