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PoliticWiki: Exploring Communal Politics Kevin Makice Indiana University, School of Informatics 901 E. 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47408-3912 (812) 856-5754 kmakice@indiana.edu ABSTRACT This paper describes the methodology and results of an attempt to use a wiki web site for political collaboration. Recruited through gateway contacts for online political organizations and publications, participants in the PoliticWiki project were asked to create a political platform from scratch. Foundation content was copied from 3rdParty.org to seed the wiki. Of the 78 surveys collected, eight members were responsible for 96% of all content changes. This study identifies obstacles to participation on a point-of-view wiki and explores its function as both a political forum and a vehicle for participatory design. changes to a single page by two or more authors, often occur where bias is introduced into the content. Yet, the core function of a wiki “ the ability for many people to change shared content easily “ seems to match well with the goals of Direct Democracy (a theory of civics that grants sovereignty to the masses) [4] and other initiatives that seek to make politics transparent. This paper details the results of PoliticWiki, a six-month study that asked participants to collaborate

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PoliticWiki: exploring communal politics

Makice, Kevin

Association for Computing Machinery — Aug 21, 2006

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