EDV investigated how British citizens experienced the televised Prime Ministerial Debates in 2010, with a view to understanding how the 2015 debates can be experienced in new ways to give greater insight and engagement. These requirements inform the use of computational approaches to model and visualise the debates, through novel replay interfaces. The team brings a unique combination of Information Science, Political Communication and Design (University of Leeds) with Computer-Supported Argument Modelling & Visualisation (The Open University). Learn more…
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Testing Democratic Reflection during the 2017 UK’s Televised Election Debates
A Real-Time Audience Feedback Tool to Engage with Political Debates Social media have multiplied the channels of sensory streams available to the public audience of political debates. But is this new “participation experience” truly informative? Do social media voices really capture the richness of citizens’ reactions while they are...
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EDV-related PhD studentship at University of Technology Sydney’s Connected Intelligence Centre
The University of Technology Sydney's Connected Intelligence Centre (UTS:CIC) is offering three doctoral scholarships as part of the Centre's doctoral program in Learning Analytics. UTS:CIC, led...
Rethinking Debates project kicks off with full-length feature on EDV
Earlier this week, EDV was the subject of a full-length feature in the Rethinking Debates project. This is the first of a global series of reports on the impact of technology on the...
EDV at ECA Lisbon 2015
Last week, I attended the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, 9-12 June 2015, in Lisbon, Portugal. EDV contributed a paper on our analysis of Fair Play: a semi-automatic method to...