Happening in an hour! Best, Samia Ibtasam <http://samiaibtasam.com/> PhD Student Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:00 AM Samia Ibtasam <sam...@cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Hi, > Join us for the Change Seminar tomorrow - Tuesday 25th February 2020 at > noon. > > When: Tuesday 1/28, 12pm-1pm > > Where: CSE2 271 (Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Building). > > *Title:* > "How Technology Shapes the Crowd and Protects Electoral Integrity: Digital > and Real-World Political Participation in Emerging Democracies." > > *Who:* > James D. Long, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of > Washington > (with Clark Gibson, Karen Ferree, and Craig McIntosh--UC-San Diego & > Danielle Jung--Emory University) > > *Abstract:* > How does technology shape political participation and electoral integrity > in emerging democracies? By lowering costs, new information and > communications technology (ICT) draws new participants into politics. Yet > lower costs also shift the composition of participants in politically > important ways by attracting more extrinsically motivated individuals and a > crowd that is more responsive to incentives (``malleable'') and sensitive > to costs (``fragile''). We illustrate these dynamics using VIP: Voice, a > multi-channel ICT platform we built to encourage both digital and > real-world forms of participation in South Africa's 2014 election. VIP: > Voice allowed citizens to engage in campaign activities via low-tech mobile > phones and high-tech social media, randomized incentives for different > types of participation, and generated a corps of citizen election monitors > deployed to provide checks on the integrity of vote counts. VIP: Voice > generated engagement in over 250,000 South Africans but saw large attrition > switching from low to high-cost forms of engagement, and attrition was > particularly large for extrinsically motivated participants. ICT-enabled > citizen monitoring also worked effectively to provide low-cost > cost-effective independent checks on the integrity of the electoral process > that also guard against electronic hacking. > > Best, > Samia Ibtasam <http://samiaibtasam.com/> > PhD Student > Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering > University of Washington > >
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