A starting point for discussion
The idea
Some methods combine small-group discussion with written records that are later shared or combined across groups. The chapter names World Café and Open Space Technology, as well as constitutional and rule-making processes, book clubs, editorial boards, focus groups, surveys, and research processes. It also describes documents moving between groups through successive rounds, as in legal traditions’ oral and written arguments and academic peer review.
Place in the reasoning
AI assessment · Connected to reasoning
Describes processes combining small-group talk with written records shared or synthesized across groups, directly relevant to connecting participation at different scales.
Designing discussions where people can take part and be heard
Shows one arrangement for combining small-group participation with broader communication, without establishing that the arrangement ensures equal access or voice.
Online discussion needs more than access to technology
Describes communication across groups through written records and successive rounds, a relevant analogue for digital deliberation and representation.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
People can discuss an issue in smaller groups, record their discussion, and pass or combine those records for wider use. In some processes, groups pass documents back and forth for further discussion and revision.
Why it matters
These arrangements can combine interactive talk with communication across larger or more distant groups, but the chapter does not evaluate how well each method works.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Complete Augmented Deliberation chapter from the book that is updated over time. Other chapters are not included. The chapter gives methods and examples in which conversation and documents carry ideas between groups or across rounds. Addresses: Processes that link discussion and writing
Questions this connects to
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