TY - JOUR
T1 - Deliberative technology
T2 - A holistic lens for interpreting resources and dynamics in deliberation
AU - Sandfort, Jodi R
AU - Quick, Kathy
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - We introduce the concept of deliberative technology as an integrative framework to encapsulate how facilitators and participants bring different resources into use in deliberative processes. It serves as a holistic lens to observe, explain, and intervene constructively in the unpredictable, emergent dynamics of deliberative processes. We developed the concept of deliberative technology inductively through ethnographic analysis of three deliberative processes. In the three cases, the deliberative processes and their results were quite different, despite common resources, policy contexts, and purposes. We articulate a typology of general types of potential resources for deliberation - methodological techniques, material objects, and conceptual frameworks - and show how they interact with the policy context and the dynamics of the facilitators and participants to produce the deliberative technologies of the three cases.
AB - We introduce the concept of deliberative technology as an integrative framework to encapsulate how facilitators and participants bring different resources into use in deliberative processes. It serves as a holistic lens to observe, explain, and intervene constructively in the unpredictable, emergent dynamics of deliberative processes. We developed the concept of deliberative technology inductively through ethnographic analysis of three deliberative processes. In the three cases, the deliberative processes and their results were quite different, despite common resources, policy contexts, and purposes. We articulate a typology of general types of potential resources for deliberation - methodological techniques, material objects, and conceptual frameworks - and show how they interact with the policy context and the dynamics of the facilitators and participants to produce the deliberative technologies of the three cases.
KW - Co-production
KW - Deliberative methods
KW - Deliberative technology
KW - Designing deliberative processes
KW - Ethnographic research
KW - Resources for deliberation
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039412347
SN - 1937-2841
VL - 13
JO - Journal of Public Deliberation
JF - Journal of Public Deliberation
IS - 1
ER -