My notes from the workshop
Themes from introductory conversation
Conducting conversation
Re-use
Semiotic continuity
Reputation
Context
Design space
Tools
Audience
Breakout group: Debatepedia and What should a thread look like?
Largely copied from Ping Yee's butcher paper notes:
Features of debate
- Good features: NPOV (neutral point of view) appears to work; separate artifact and conversation; user profiles
- Bad features:
Goals of debate: main ones according to Cliff, in literature
- persuasion
- consensus
- articulation - brainstorming
- group self-awareness
- entertainment
- tactical distraction/diversion from other debates
- active listening
Outcome of debate may be:
- a decision
- See My Tiny Life about the world of Lambda Moo
- indvidual attitude change / education /empathy
- conflict / violence
- indiv./coll. identity
- knowledge exchange
- moderateness of views
- bridging versus bonding
Design desiderata
- foster/coerce focus
- facilitate encourage use of evidence
Possibly good/bad mechanisms
- Rollback (unposting)
- Repudiation/nonrepudiability
Mechanisms
- Separate artifact
- Profiles: ID vs. anonymity ... pseudonymity
- Clustering: comfort vs. balkanization
- Focus: tight...loose
- Reference: quoting...summarization
- Modifiability: editable...scribblable...unchanging