Evaluation of deliberation events is key for transparency. Online deliberation also needs evaluation for further advancement.
Methods for participant surveys
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Methods for researcher evaluation/observers
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What evaluation criteria should be included that are specific to online mini-publics?
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“Supportiveness. The platform should support the group overall, so that there is either an improvement or no decline in the ability of the group to meet the needs of its members or stakeholders.
Comprehensiveness. The platform should allow the group to accomplish, in an online environment, all of the usual deliberative tasks associated with face-to-face meetings.
Participation. The platform should maximize the number of desired participants in the group’s deliberations, and minimize barriers to their participation. Finally, the fourth criterion (quality) was aimed at the group’s satisfaction with the process and substance of its decisions.
Quality. The platform should facilitate a subjective quality of interaction and decision making that meets or exceeds what the group achieves in face-to-face meetings.”
An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design
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- Impact of differences in audio and/or video quality on deliberation
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