Beyond CSCW: computer supported mediation and consensus decision-making in electronic democracy

Dr. D. R. Newman

Normally at

<d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk>, Queen's University Belfast, School of Management and Economics (http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/staff/dave/)

Oct. 1999-Jan. 2000

<davidn@staff.dis.unimelb.edu.au>, University of Melbourne, Dept. of Information Systems (http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/davidn/)

• Abstract
• Background
  • Communities and conflict
  • Antigroupware
• Theory
  • Reaching consensus
  • Measuring consensus
    • (dynamics of voting)
• Application
  • Render unto computers ...