Deliberation in the wild: a visualization tool for blog discovery and citizen-to-citizen participation Export

@inproceedings{5775, abstract = {Web logs (or blogs) have become a means for citizens to share opinions and deliberate on local issues. However, the large number of blogs makes finding and exploring content of interest relatively difficult. This discovery problem presumably also limits participation by interested citizens. We present a tool to display a representation of citizen-to-citizen discussion in blogs that reveals similarity across blog entries. Through association and content analysis, blog entries are linked to each other to form clusters of related local content. Users can navigate and explore online discussions by manipulating the graph, filtering content, and clicking on a blog title to go directly to a given blog in order to read further. The visualization of online discussion can promote participation by highlighting popular topics and laying out the structure of conversations. We conducted a case study on regional Southwest Virginia blogs to validate the tool's usability and capacity for facilitating citizen-to-citizen discussion, as well as government awareness of diverse voices in the local community. In this paper we present the tool design, its functionality, the usability evaluation and summarize the results.}, author = {Tauro, Candida and Ahuja, Sameer and Prez-Qui¤ones, Manuel A. and Kavanaugh, Andrea and Isenhour, Philip}, citeulike-article-id = {3300429}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367832.1367859&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=SERIES10714&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=AICPS&CFID=1208704&CFTOKEN=28794655}, isbn = {978-1-60558-099-9}, journal = {Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research}, keywords = {blogging, community, discussion, e-government, prosem}, number = {Montreal, Canada}, pages = {143--152}, posted-at = {2008-09-20 21:54:14}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Digital Government Society of North America}, title = {Deliberation in the wild: a visualization tool for blog discovery and citizen-to-citizen participation}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367832.1367859&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=SERIES10714&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=AICPS&CFID=1208704&CFTOKEN=28794655}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - 5775 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3300429 N2 - Web logs (or blogs) have become a means for citizens to share opinions and deliberate on local issues. However, the large number of blogs makes finding and exploring content of interest relatively difficult. This discovery problem presumably also limits participation by interested citizens. We present a tool to display a representation of citizen-to-citizen discussion in blogs that reveals similarity across blog entries. Through association and content analysis, blog entries are linked to each other to form clusters of related local content. Users can navigate and explore online discussions by manipulating the graph, filtering content, and clicking on a blog title to go directly to a given blog in order to read further. The visualization of online discussion can promote participation by highlighting popular topics and laying out the structure of conversations. We conducted a case study on regional Southwest Virginia blogs to validate the tool's usability and capacity for facilitating citizen-to-citizen discussion, as well as government awareness of diverse voices in the local community. In this paper we present the tool design, its functionality, the usability evaluation and summarize the results. IS - Montreal, Canada JF - Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research SN - 978-1-60558-099-9 EP - 152 TI - Deliberation in the wild: a visualization tool for blog discovery and citizen-to-citizen participation PB - Digital Government Society of North America SP - 143 KW - blogging KW - community KW - discussion KW - e-government KW - prosem AU - Tauro, Candida AU - Ahuja, Sameer AU - Prez-Qui¤ones, Manuel AU - Kavanaugh, Andrea AU - Isenhour, Philip PY - 2008/// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367832.1367859&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=SERIES10714&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=AICPS&CFID=1208704&CFTOKEN=28794655 ER -