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Meet the citizen expert: societal change seen from the trenches
Alberto Cottica
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Citizens as experts
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“The future is already here.It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson
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MASSIVELY COLLABORATIVESELF-SELECTEDA THINK TANKDISTRIBUTEDEXPERIENCE BASED
you you
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Act 1: seed
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Learning
Where did you learn your key
skills?
Campaigns
Missions
Missionreports
Take an online lecture. Does it
work?[...]
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Act 2: grow
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1,000 Twitter users
9,000 tweets
Citizens as a communication team: Edgeryders on Twitter, Mar-Jun 2012
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1200 participants
500 mission reports
4000 comments
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Act 3: harvest
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1,700 pages
of high quality ethnographic data
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The EDGERYDERS guide to the future I
THE EDGERYDERS GUIDE TO THE FUTURE
A HANDBOOK FOR POLICYMAKERS &
DESIGNERS OF POLICY-ORIENTED
ONLINE COMMUNITIES
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The Edgeryders networkin December 2012Density 0.028Average weighted degree 10.87Average distance 2.3
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The Edgeryders networkwith moderators removedDensity 0.013Average weighted degree 3.7Average distance 3.3
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The Edgeryders networkwith moderators removedModularity 0.5Subcommunities are clearly visible
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What are subcommunities talking about?Blue edge = more specialization on one or few topics, red edge = no specialization, all topics equally discussed
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Topic treeHow “broad” and “deep” are discussions?
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Topic tree (detail)A nice fractal pattern between topics, subtopics, posts and comments
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So, what have we built?
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Inclusive: a space for individual citizens to be heard
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Diverse: be everyone to engage with everyone!
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Open: anyone can join without permission
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Effective: highly relevant results
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truthfulself-correctingConsultancy + consultationsocial businessThe future
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