Reflections on DIAC/OD 2008 at Berkeley

Sun, 07/06/2008 - 17:47 — Daniel Zhou

What I have gained from the conference:

Made connections with people who have similar interests.

Justin Smith, a PhD student in Washington State University who is doing research on "Networked Resistance" patterns in India.
Brian Sullivan, a practitioner who has developed an interesting Deliberation tool at civicevolution.org.
The eGovernment research group at VT.
Peter Day from the University of Brighton who is interested in democracy in China.
Elisa Oreglia, a PhD student at Berkeley iSchool who is doing research about ICT in China

Learned some interesting ideas

The online deliberation process can be decomposed into 3 elements: issues (questions), options (possible answers), and arguments (pros and cons). We have also seen demo systems such as the MIT Collabortium and CivicEvolution.
The idea of using open source software developmen process to develope government rules collectively.
The idea of "Networked Resistance" patterns and anti-patterns.

Fueled with more ideas and passion to do research in promoting democracy in China

Online discussion and argumentation has a huge potential in promoting democracy in China, not only because it can educate people what is "democracy" and prepare people for it, but also it is where the government regulation is weak. Related research areas include online communities, social media, online deliberation, social network, and conversation research, which are quite consistent with my interests.
Drupal is a good tool in terms of building technical infrastructure for online communities.
Many ideas from Computer Science such as patterns, usability, recommender/reputation systems, etc, can be borrowed to this area of research, which is my advantage compared to other social science researchers.

Some caveats:

Research topic cannot be too broad or too vague. We need specific research questions.
We need either qualitative data or quantitative data to convince the audience that an idea is a good one. Merely describing the idea and assuming it is good is not convincing at all.
We should be careful that it is quite easy to get lost in ideals and those "big ideas" in research about politics. We need to do something that has a certain degree of feasibility rather than impractical illusions.

Trivia:

Surprisingly there were not so many academics attending the conference.
Sean and I really enjoyed the delicious Mexican food served at Cafe Duran.
I met Kieran Lal at Berkeley who were attending the Bay Area DUG meeting, and disccussed deploying pivots to Drupal.org.

In general, I almost made up my mind to do my Prelim research in using online conversations as an approach to promote democracy in China. I need to talk to my advisor before making the final decision. I can also do some research in other areas as my side projects (if I can handle them).

What to do next in terms of this research.

Come up with the research problem

Step one: brainstorming and find out the possibilities. I need to discuss it with Paul, Sean and probably Prof.Kenneth Lieberthal at the PolSci department who is an expert in Chinese politics
Step two: find out which problem has the most potential. The problem should be a good match of my interest and my advisor's interest.

Literature review: read articles and books about PolSci.
Find fundings: social media, KnightFoundation

About other research and project:

I'll submit a detailed report on the progress of the pivots research with Drupal.org in a later time.
Hope to participate in other related projects with other PhD students as my side projects.

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