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Walton, Douglas C.

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An evolutionary systems model for using the Internet to support democratic inquiry among multiple design communities.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An evolutionary systems model for using the Internet to support democratic inquiry among multiple design communities./
Author:	Walton, Douglas C.
Description:	374 p.
Notes:	Chair: Bela H. Banathy, Sr.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-06A.
Subject:	Mass Communications. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3057528
ISBN:	0493728929

An evolutionary systems model for using the Internet to support democratic inquiry among multiple design communities.
Walton, Douglas C.

An evolutionary systems model for using the Internet to support democratic inquiry among multiple design communities. - 374 p.

Chair: Bela H. Banathy, Sr.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2002.

The initially much-lauded vision of the Internet as a means of returning political power to the citizens, engaging public deliberation, and improving community worldwide has, over the past 10 years, produced lackluster results and has been subject to considerable criticism. Yet, the hope for a socially conscious, egalitarian solution remains. The impediment seems to be that the problem is exceedingly complex, involving many disciplines. Hence, this dissertation, by employing a systems-theoretic approach, constructs a transdisciplinary theory base for how, in light of current critiques, an Internet-based, sociotechnical system of public discourse, could operate.

ISBN: 0493728929Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017395
Mass Communications.

An evolutionary systems model for using the Internet to support democratic inquiry among multiple design communities.
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520 $a Evolutionary systems inquiry guided the development of the theory base. This methodology entailed cross-disciplinary identification and critique of concepts related to societal evolution, followed by application of systems principles and social systems design techniques to construct comprehensive, internally coherent models of potential systems with which to address the research questions. This study presents the theory base as a complex social systems model that integrates several propositional submodels for systems of individual motivation and participation in the public sphere with B. H. Banathy's (2000) evolutionary systems design methodology. The resulting metamodel demonstrates how multiple inquiring communities can engage in a large-scale evolutionary design conversation that synthesizes individual, social, organizational, and technical perspectives. The metamodel creates a robust foundation for using advanced Internet-based communications technology to foster transformative social dialogue.
520 $a The research results are postulated within a contextual framework that assumes a modern democratic political setting, although analysis of the world problematique suggests that many of the institutions of contemporary democracies, specifically in the United States, are outmoded and in need of comprehensive redesign. Evolutionary systems designers and deliberative democrats sorely need a new vision with which to guide action toward redesigning societal institutions. This research presents a theory base that has the potential to assist evolutionary systems designers by providing absent theoretical and methodological insight. Thus, this research may serve a critical need for a coherent image of how large-scale public dialogue can be conducted in a way that will mitigate and counterbalance the machinations of governmental and societal power and enable the public will to operate in a manner consistent with that prescribed by democratic theory.
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