conference: online deliberation 2005 / diac 2005

the conference is currently in progress, and some of the papers presented are availalbe from the website. and it has a blog.

2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC-2005

Online Deliberation 2005 / DIAC-2005
Hosted by The Symbolic Systems Program, the Center for Deliberative Democracy, the Center for the Study of Language and Information, and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University

Stanford, CA, USA
May 20 - 22, 2005

The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC 2005, will bring together software developers, social science researchers, and practioners of online deliberation for three days of presentations and workshops on the Stanford University campus in May of 2005. Following up on an earlier conference, 'Developing and Using Online Tools for Deliberative Democracy', held at Carnegie Mellon University in June of 2003, we would like at this meeting to discuss the possible creation of a new society for online deliberation with an international membership, to support cross-disciplinary scholarship, principled design, and informed practice in the use of online environments for group deliberation and democratic participation. This is also the latest in a series of conferences on Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC), presented in association with the Public Sphere Project (a CPSR Initiative).