Monthly Archives: November 2010
Designing for deliberation
I’ve been pulling together bits of background reading over the last two weeks, particularly in the area of interface design for e-participation and designing systems for deliberation. This is far from an exhaustive list of papers, but I hope I … Continue reading
Dr Simon Smith: Online research – analysing forums
The latest PhD seminar featured Simon Smith presenting to us two pieces of research that he had worked on: a health management project in digital inclusion and an international local e-democracy project. Both projects involved the use and analysis of … Continue reading
Supervision meeting three
After my meeting with Ann, Stephen was aware of my difficulties in projecting a structure of research that is worthy of PhD. I talked about the areas I had worked on: case studies; different technologies and ways of looking at … Continue reading
Back to the drawing board…
I decided to run some of my thoughts past Professor Ann Macintosh – an expert in argument visualisation and one of the most knowledgeable people in my area of research. Putting to her my thoughts about interface design and its effect on … Continue reading
Developing ideas…
Having looked at a range of case studies and read some of the literature I have tried to formulate some ideas about my research, starting with the major themes that must be present in research about e-participation. Participation: allowing the … Continue reading
e-Participation case studies
Taking an in-depth look at a few more case studies, my initial list of good examples is dwindling fast. Many have been discontinued and the data is not readily available (TalkSwindon and BBC Action Network, for example) and some are … Continue reading
e-Participation initiatives uncovered
My initial investigations into potential case studies and examples of e-participation initiatives has proved very fruitful indeed. I have been ably assisted in my trawl of the hundreds of examples currently available by the website e-participation.net – a useful database of e-participation initiatives in … Continue reading
Text analysis and website archiving
I have been keeping an eye out for new and useful technologies that might be important in my studies and have recently come across a couple that are worthy of note: DiscoverText Launched just this month, DiscoverText – a product of Texifter, … Continue reading
Colin Alexander: Public Diplomacy in Central America
The second part of this week’s PhD seminar was student led, with Colin Alexander presenting his research to us. The following is a summary of my notes from the presentation. Colin’s research analyses the tussle between China and Taiwan in … Continue reading
Upgrade process
Part 1 of this weeks PhD seminar focussed on the upgrade (or transfer) process that we have to go through, in my my case within 24 months – by September 2012. The discussion started with brief introductions and one-line description … Continue reading
e-Participation and Online Deliberation 