Metagov's new Theory+Practice project
A seminar to introduce Metagov's new Theory+Practice project, which is running through the next couple months, currently as part of Interop (dedicated page coming soon). This project aims to connect political theory / political science with work being done in these spaces on new democratic practice (especially by friends of Metagov).
This will involve:
1. Helping deliberative tech practitioners better understand the political theory relevant to their work (via seminars, discussions, readings and resources, etc.)
2. Exposing political theorists to these efforts to build deliberative tech and new democratic practice (via inductive study, explorative discussions, expert guests, etc.)
This seminar will lay out the problems motivating the Theory+Practice project, outline some key theoretical issues relevant to practitioners, and show how some key practical issues are relevant to political theorists.
Theory+Practice will also run a few seminars later this month, outside the main Metagov seminar timeslot (watch #deliberative-tools-and-interop for updates). Input on potential topics and Theory+Practice generally is welcome via this ~5 min survey!'.
More about Metagov Seminar:
The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.
The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.
The seminar is planned through the #metagov-seminar channel on the Metagov Slack. Participate by joining our community.
Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4)
Location: Online. See our Research Seminars Series for meeting information
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