Community Conversational: Supporting and Capturing Political Deliberation in Local Consultation ...
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A hybrid system called Community Conversational combines a tabletop game with a digital capture-and-review platform: plastic tokens tracked on a map, prompt cards enforcing turn-taking, and audio/video transcription with a searchable interface. Trials at two consultations with 30 and 50 residents show the method reduces domination, increases turn-taking and reflective challenge, and ties comments to places, but local decision-makers still demand simple counts and charts and struggle to use the rich qualitative data without additional summarization tools.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and team
- 1:09Study focus and context
- 2:10Background on localism and civil society
- 4:36Social media and democracy limitations
- 5:37Introducing Community Conversational
- 8:00Design and deployment of the platform
- 10:30Trial events and evaluation
- 11:33Findings and deliberation success
- 14:42Decision-makers' data preferences
- 16:34Summary and implications
- 18:12Q&A session
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