Groenhof, Titia (2023) Digital Deliberative Democracy and its Moderator. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
This paper discusses Digital Deliberative Democracy (DDD) and the influence moderators have on the deliberation process. Governments are choosing more often for digital platforms for citizen participation (Van der Woude, 2019). Moderators can ensure a more inclusive and just process on these platforms. This paper focuses on the practices of DDD and the challenge of moderation that comes along with it. It splits up DDD into “Deliberative Democracy” (DD) and “Digital Democracy” (DiD). DD is a form of political decision-making that enables communication among citizens to find the best common solutions, whilst offering ownership, encouraging commitment to the process, and increasing civil participation (Mansbridge et al., 2010). DiD is the practice of democracy in whatever view using digital media in online or offline political communication (Van Dijk, 2012). DDD takes place in a context of equality, respect, reciprocity, and enough equal power of the participants to communicate influence. However, due to the self-selection of participants in a DDD, the participants need to be randomly selected (Fung, 2003). Additionally, we need to be mindful of how to least negatively impact the deliberative process, as there are a variety of ways to impact the outcomes of a DDD. The biases of a human or artificial moderato play a role in this. In order to mitigate the negative impact of the moderators on DDD, human moderators need to be combined with artificial moderators. To add to this, feedback sessions for the participants and moderators after a DDD process need to be implemented. This paper is written from a Western perspective, with a relatively well-functioning, democratic, modern society. Keywords: Deliberation, Democracy, Deliberative Democracy, Digital Democracy, Digital Deliberative Democracy, Moderation, Moderators, Framing, Democratic processes, Human Moderators, Artificial Moderators
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Mikhaylovskaya, A.A. and Roumeas, E. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 09:59 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 09:59 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/288 |
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