Re: [change] Change Seminar Tuesday 2/25: James D. Long - "How Technology Shapes the Crowd and Protects Electoral Integrity: Digital and Real-World Political Participation in Emerging Democracies."

2020-02-25 Thread Samia Ibtasam 
Happening in an hour!

Best,
Samia Ibtasam 
PhD Student
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington



On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:00 AM Samia Ibtasam 
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 
> PhD Student
> Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
> University of Washington
>
>
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[change] Change Seminar Tuesday 2/25: James D. Long - "How Technology Shapes the Crowd and Protects Electoral Integrity: Digital and Real-World Political Participation in Emerging Democracies."

2020-02-24 Thread Samia Ibtasam 
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 
PhD Student
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
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