[ecrea] New book: ICT for Dialogue and Inclusive Decision-Making

New book: ICT for Dialogue and Inclusive Decision-Making
Peter Lang
Edited by Anna Przybylska
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/78005?format=HC

Public consultations are a weak but institutionally embedded form of 
civic participation in political decision-making. Their input and output 
are often a cause for concern. This has motivated the authors to design 
the inDialogue platform to help transmit knowledge about the methodology 
of public consultations. It follows the deliberative public consultation 
model and recognizes the value of social inclusion in knowledge-sharing 
and argument exchange in building an open political community. In this 
book, researchers as well as practitioners in their respective fields 
discuss various aspects of the inDialogue software’s development and 
implementation. They document the complexity of the work that was 
carried out in an applied interdisciplinary project in the area of 
democratic innovations.

“The value of this volume is not only in its presentation of inDialogue 
as an innovative application enabling those with disabilities to access 
public debate and consultation, but also in raising important questions 
about the introduction of ICT for debate and consultation. These 
questions are answered from both the perspective of the technical and 
social sciences.”
Jerzy Bartkowski, professor at the Institute of Sociology, the 
University of Warsaw

“ICT for Dialogue and Inclusive Decision-Making is a splendid 
contribution to the literature concerning online deliberation and civic 
engagement. It usefully bridges the academic world of theory and 
empirical studies, and the practice of citizen deliberation, carefully 
documenting both the design and experiences
of the In Dialogue project in Poland.”
Todd Davies, associate director and lecturer, Symbolic Systems Program, 
Stanford University

The Editor
Anna Przybylska is an assistant professor and head of the Centre for 
Deliberation at the Institute of Sociology, the University of Warsaw. 
She is manager of the applied project “New Perspectives for Dialogue: 
the Model of Deliberation and ICT for the Social Inclusion in 
decision-making” (2014–2017).
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