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Posted for Todd Davies

                    *** Call for Participation ***

                2nd Conference on Online Deliberation:
                    Design, Research, and Practice
                               DIAC 2005

                 Website: www.online-deliberation.net

                            May 20-22, 2005
                  Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Abstract deadline: March 15, 2005

The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice
/ DIAC 2005, will be held at Stanford University from Friday through Sunday,
May 20-22, 2005. This conference is a follow-up to "Developing and Using
Online Tools for Deliberative Democracy", a two-day seminar which was held
at Carnegie Mellon University in June, 2003. At the end of the CMU
conference, participants agreed to have a follow-up meeting at Stanford.  We
would like to solidify the conference as a regular event, and to discuss the
possibility of establishing a new society for online deliberation that will
bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners whose work bears on
this area.  This conference is also the latest in a series of conferences on
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC), presented in
association with the Public Sphere Project (a CPSR Initiative).

We welcome proposals for presentations and workshops from both within and
outside academia. An edited volume of abstracts and selected full papers
from the conference is planned for publication afterward through CSLI
Publications, a division of the University of Chicago Press. Topics of
interest include:

* Online deliberation and groupware design
* Computer-supported cooperative work
* Uses and implications of the Internet for democratic participation
* E-consultation and E-rulemaking
* Online facilitation and community-building
* Research on virtual communities
* Uses of groupware in organizations
* Online learning communities
* Social decision procedures for online environments
* Analyzing online dialogue
* Email and listservs
* Chatrooms and instant messaging
* Message boards and blogs
* Collaborative editing and wikis
* Online organizing and petitions
* Teleconferencing
* Mobile communication and "smart mobs"
* Smart rooms and iRooms
* Immersive virtual environments
* Multilingual online communities and machine translation
* Secure communication and voting
* Information systems support for deliberation
* Lessons from "offline" deliberation and democracy
* Distributed design
* IP, ownership and "copyleft"
* Digital divides, usability, and accessibility
* Free speech and censorship online
* Communication across platforms

All of the above topics bear on whether Internet tools for deliberation can
truly deepen democracy -- in groups, communities, and societies --and, if
so, how. But work on these topics is spread over many and diverse
disciplines: computer science, the social sciences, education, law, public
policy, philosophy, social work, and information science, just to name a
few. It involves scholars, designers, and practitioners from all over the
world. This conference, like the one at CMU in 2003, is an attempt to bring
these perspectives together so that we can all widen our horizons.

The focus of the conference is not the Internet, society, and politics
generally, but rather work that is especially related to online deliberation
tools and their use. "Deliberation" denotes "thoughtful, careful, or lengthy
consideration" by individuals, and "formal discussion and debate" in groups
(Collins English Dictionary, 1979). We are therefore primarily interested in
online communication that is reasoned, purposeful, and interactive, but the
power and predominance of other influences on political decisions (e.g. mass
media, appeals to emotion and authority, and snap judgments) obviously make
them relevant to the prospects for deliberative e-democracy. Topics such as
technology policy and social networks are of interest, but proposals around
such topics for this conference should relate them to online deliberation.

Proposals should be submitted under one of the following categories:

PAPER PRESENTATION
A proposal to present a paper may include an abstract of up to 300 words.
Accepted authors will have until May 1 to upload a draft of their full paper
so that conference attendees and an assigned discussant can read it before
the conference.  Paper presenters will have between 15 and 25 minutes to
present their paper, depending on the time available in the final schedule.
A limited number of papers will be selected for full-text print publication
in a book that will be issued after the conference. Authors who are invited
to publish their paper in the edited volume will have until July 1 to
produce camera-ready copy.  Papers that are not included in the book will
have their abstracts published instead.

DEMO OR TALK
A proposal to give a demonstration or talk may include an abstract of up to
300 words, which should describe the presentation that is being proposed.
Accepted presenters will be given 15-25 minutes to present their work,
depending on the time available in the final schedule. Presenters may, at
their option, upload full papers on the conference web site prior to the
conference, but a discussant will not be assigned if the submission is made
in a category other than "paper presentation". Abstracts will be published
in the edited volume that will be issued after the conference.

PANEL OR SHORT WORKSHOP A proposal for a panel or short workshop may include
an abstract of up to 500 words.  The abstract should include the names of
proposed presenters or hosts, as well as a description of the proposed
workshop/panel.  Workshops/panels are expected to last about 75 minutes.
Presenters/participants may, at their option, upload full papers on the
conference web site prior to the conference.  Abstract-length (500 word)
summaries of each workshop/panel will be published in the edited volume that
will be issued after the conference, and will be due from the workshop/panel
organizers by June 1.  The conference online discussion forum (linked from
the conference homepage) is available as a venue for networking on panel and
workshop proposals.

EXTENDED WORKSHOP A proposal for an extended workshop may include an
abstract of up to 700 words.  The abstract should include the names of
proposed presenters or hosts, as well as a description of the proposed
workshop.  Workshops are expected to last either for a half day or a full
day.  If a proposal is not accepted as an extended workshop, the proposed
presenters/hosts may be offered the opportunity to do a short workshop
instead.  Participants may, at their option, upload full papers to the
conference web site prior to the conference. Abstract-length (700 word)
summaries of each workshop will be published in the edited volume that will
be issued after the conference, and will be due from the workshop organizers
by June 1.  The conference online discussion forum (linked from the
conference homepage) is available as a venue for networking on workshop
proposals.

The conference will be held at Stanford University in rooms equipped with
overhead and laptop projection equipment, screens, and chalkboards.
Presenters will need to take responsibility for any computer equipment,
slides, or other audio-visual aids needed for their presentations.

If space is available, we will try to facilitate impromptu workshops and
group discussions that are organized informally during the conference.
Organizers of these discussions will also be invited to submit 300-word
summaries at the conclusion of the conference for publication in the edited
volume.

Co-sponsored by the Symbolic Systems Program, the Center for Deliberative
Democracy, the Center for the Study of Language and Information, and the
Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, in association with
the Public Sphere Project (a CPSR Initiative)

For more information, consult the conference website:
http://www.online-deliberation.net/conf2005.

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