milestone 10
Here were my assumptions before starting this experiment...
- A majority of people my age are not that politically involved or discuss politics, which is part of the reason for the narrow age range of subjects.
- Political discussions would probably be had between participants and their peers and probably a result of an assignment or major world event ("hot issue").
- That the participants would favor the online chat based deliberation because of the anonymity and the leisure that surrounds being in your own environment.
- If more involvement could be had online, I thought people would be more inclined to participant in their government.
- A majority of the participants would be intimidated by the face-to-face deliberation.
- Participants would have a few suggestions for future deliberations.
My assessment of the experiment itself:
- As to be expected the roundtable deliberation seemed somewhat labored, but once we got into a topic the ball just kept rolling.
- Most of the topics the participants stated as interesting to them were discussed.
- I tried not to get involved at all, but in one or two instances I had to suggest a topic to keep things going.
- The face-to-face deliberation seemed rather polite. My suspicions were that they were intimidated by the situation.
- I felt the online deliberation was rather unorganized due to everyone entering comments and the same time, and if you were commenting on something already said you may or may not realize it due to the other comments posted before yours.
- Every once in awhile some participants would use the smiley expressions available through America Online Instant Messenger to further their message.
- Perhaps it is because of the hectic nature of the forum that participants seemed more involved.
My conclusions...
- There is not enough information out there about digital/online/computer based forums for citizens to be more involved in their government and it's decisions.
- People feel that they have no voice in the government or little voice, and it should be increased.
- No one forum was drastically favored over the other, but the online chat did get a more favorable response.
- While people do like anonymity, they also like being able to get a feel for people that you can only get face-to-face (expression, tone, voice volume).
- People would probably be more inclined to participate and get involved in more aspects of governance if they were able to do so online.
- A majority of people my age are not that politically involved or discuss politics, which is part of the reason for the narrow age range of subjects.
- Political discussions would probably be had between participants and their peers and probably a result of an assignment or major world event ("hot issue").
- That the participants would favor the online chat based deliberation because of the anonymity and the leisure that surrounds being in your own environment.
- If more involvement could be had online, I thought people would be more inclined to participant in their government.
- A majority of the participants would be intimidated by the face-to-face deliberation.
- Participants would have a few suggestions for future deliberations.
My assessment of the experiment itself:
- As to be expected the roundtable deliberation seemed somewhat labored, but once we got into a topic the ball just kept rolling.
- Most of the topics the participants stated as interesting to them were discussed.
- I tried not to get involved at all, but in one or two instances I had to suggest a topic to keep things going.
- The face-to-face deliberation seemed rather polite. My suspicions were that they were intimidated by the situation.
- I felt the online deliberation was rather unorganized due to everyone entering comments and the same time, and if you were commenting on something already said you may or may not realize it due to the other comments posted before yours.
- Every once in awhile some participants would use the smiley expressions available through America Online Instant Messenger to further their message.
- Perhaps it is because of the hectic nature of the forum that participants seemed more involved.
My conclusions...
- There is not enough information out there about digital/online/computer based forums for citizens to be more involved in their government and it's decisions.
- People feel that they have no voice in the government or little voice, and it should be increased.
- No one forum was drastically favored over the other, but the online chat did get a more favorable response.
- While people do like anonymity, they also like being able to get a feel for people that you can only get face-to-face (expression, tone, voice volume).
- People would probably be more inclined to participate and get involved in more aspects of governance if they were able to do so online.
posted by Patty @ 4:00 PM
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