A study on the design of computer tools for ordering open public debates
This report is the continuation of the JRC report 115574 Computers and Coordination of Debate. In that report the stress was on the classification of computer tools from the perspective of the relative strength of the procedure adopted for keeping order in a debate
and on the representation of the flow of argumentation. In this report, we devote more attention to a subclass of the tools previously considered: tools for the coordination of open debates, that is debates without an explicit conclusion in form of a common decision taken
by the assembly. Common decision usually recorded in some act or document, possibly after a vote.
This report is composed by two main sections and its aim is at proposing some assessment criteria for the design and analysis of tools for the coordination of debates and checking the usefulness of these criteria against a sample of existing tools. These tools are listed and analysed in the second section while the first section describes the criteria, called here analytical lenses, adopted during the analysis.
This report is prepared from the perspective of Computer Science, with a specific point of view: the design of communication systems. Implications to policy making is addressed only marginally, when required as an ingredient for the analysis but it is not the primary point of
view.
This report is the result of a collaboration among JRC E.2, JRC H.1 and ESTAT A.1.
FAVINO Rosella;
FERIGATO Carlo;
2022-11-15
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC130375
978-92-76-58750-7 (online),
978-92-76-58749-1 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 31279 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-279-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-31-279-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC130375,
10.2760/07984 (online),
10.2760/267522 (print),
