{"58713":{"#nid":"58713","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ICT Research Roundtable Speaker Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Advanced Communications Policy and the School of Public Policy is hosting an ICT Roundtable event on: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAGORA: Engaging citizens in participatory democracy and deliberation with a new web technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy: Professor Michael Hoffman, School of Public Policy\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis informal talk will present the basic ideas and first steps of a new project: \u0022AGORA: Participate - Deliberate!\u0022 A main purpose of my presentation is to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration with others in the Georgia Tech community who are working on similar projects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe objective of the AGORA project is to develop an interactive web technology that makes large-scale deliberation more effective and efficient. In a Greek city, the \u0022agora\u0022 is an open place in the middle of town where citizens come together for all kinds of public purposes. Our AGORA provides a space to interact with others, to engage the representation and discussion of a diversity of perspectives, to develop and refine positions in social interaction, and to clarify controversies by visualizing the best possible argumentation for each point of view. The AGORA is a virtual online world in which users can walk around, find interesting discussions in which they can participate, or create their own topics for a debate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPositions are mainly represented in the form of argument maps. These maps visualize the structure of reasons and background assumptions on which claims are based. These visualizations of reasoning motivate objections and critique which again lead to further justifications or the refinement of arguments. AGORA web applications can be implemented in projects that focus on (a) participatory democracy on the global, national, or local level; (b) scientific problems that require large-scale or interdisciplinary collaboration and debate; (c) collaborative structuring of knowledge; (d) conflict management; and (e) educating the next generation of critical thinkers. Further information on the AGORA project is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/agora.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/agora.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/agora.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ICT Research Roundtable is a project of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cacp.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.cacp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.cacp.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) and the Internet and Public Policy Project (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.IP3.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.IP3.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.IP3.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Title - AGORA: Engaging citizens in participatory democracy and deliberation with a new web technology.\n\nBy: Professor Michael Hoffman, School of Public Policy","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ICT Research Roundtable Speaker Series Presents Prof. Michael Hoffmann"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-06-21 16:34:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:51:49","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-11-24T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2009-11-24T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-11-24T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-11-24 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-11-24 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-11-24 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cacp.gatech.edu\/","title":"CACP"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8617","name":"ICT Research Roundtable Speaker Series"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ECarol Silvers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allan College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cs70\u0022\u003EContact Carol Silvers\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}