Democratic Futures and the Web Event

Dr. Matthew Ryan - UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy, Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures

Dr. Silke Roth - Professor of Sociology, Chair of Faculty Ethics Committee, Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures

Dr. Valentina Cardo - Associate Professor of Politics and Identity, Director of Internationalisation

Democratic Futures and the Web is a workshop coordinated by Dr. Matthew Ryan, Dr Silke Roth and Dr. Valentina Cardo for the ACM Web Science Conference which is taking place on 22nd June 2021.

The six papers that will be presented are:

• Gender Inequality and Deliberation
• Messaging Migration on Social Media
• Speaking the Language of Democracy in the Digital Age
• Inclusion in online participation in practice
• Not too good, not too bad: the mixed picture of transparency and responsiveness of E-participation instruments implemented by English local councils
• Responding to democratic dilemmas

The abstracts are attached below.

For further details, timings and registration, please visit Web Science Conference workshops