Brief Online Ethnography on Existing Activist Groups
Choose some activist groups that are having their deliberation and discussions online (e.g., Podemos use of Loomio and Reddit, LiquidFeedback groups, D-Cent Pilots with DemocracyOS) and observe how they are using these tools: what type of discussions are they engaging in? what features are used and what features are not used? is there anything they do tha…
Choose some activist groups that are having their deliberation and discussions online (e.g., Podemos use of Loomio and Reddit, LiquidFeedback groups, D-Cent Pilots with DemocracyOS) and observe how they are using these tools: what type of discussions are they engaging in? what features are used and what features are not used? is there anything they do that is not supported by these tools and that they try to circumvent, e.g., adding links to other tools? what seems to work well in these examples?