In person icon Deliberative Democracy with New Technologies: Epistemic Perspectives

Abstract

This panel explores the multifaceted impact of technologies on deliberative democracy. First, new technological tools offer opportunities for innovations in deliberative democratic decision-making. For example, technological tools enable the random selection of participants for deliberative mini-publics and could facilitate large-scale electoral reforms. Second, new technologies can be used for the analysis of deliberative processes. For example, network models can help us gain a better understanding of how deliberating agents revise their beliefs in response to what others say and how the distribution of preferences in society affects and is affected by deliberative processes. Third, technological advancements shape the epistemic value of deliberative decision-making practices. On the one hand, the filter bubbles and misinformation created by social media platforms and AI-generated fake images may undermine the epistemic quality of public deliberations. On the other hand, analyses of the different policy positions in large groups through technologies like POLIS may be used as input to enhance the epistemic value of deliberations. The papers in this panel address one or more of these issues: How do new technologies affect the epistemic value of deliberative democratic decision-making and how can new technologies be used for deliberative democratic innovations and for analysing processes of deliberation?

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Democratic Institutions for Egalitarian Deliberative Responsiveness	View Paper Details
What Misinformation Does to Deliberation	View Paper Details
Democratic Institutions for Egalitarian Deliberative Responsiveness	View Paper Details
Modelling Deliberative Exchange: The Value of Combining Ideas	View Paper Details
Multiple Juries: An Epistemic Complementarity Account	View Paper Details