Call for Participation: Workshop on Online Deliberation and Mass Participation – March 27, 2025

[Nicolien Janssens]

[apologies for cross-posting]

We are excited to announce our upcoming workshop on Online Deliberation and Mass Participation.

Workshop Details

🗓 Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
📍 Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
🏛 Room: Sanders 1-12
⏰ Time: 10:30 – 16:30 

Topic of the Workshop

A central challenge in deliberative democracy lies in balancing deliberation, which works best in small groups, and mass participation, which is essential for democratic legitimacy. According to deliberative democratic theory, decisions should emerge from inclusive discussions among all those affected. But how can this be achieved on a large scale? Can online deliberation bridge this gap? And if so, how should it be designed? This workshop aims to address these questions from philosophical, computational, and practical perspectives, exploring both the potential and challenges of online deliberation in democratic processes. The event is part of the NWO Vidi ENCODE project (Explicating the Norms of Collective Deliberation), led by Frederik Van De Putte and hosted at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Speakers

We are pleased to have the following speakers join us:

• Dannica Fleuss – a.o. University of Nairobi; Heidelberg University; Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
• Dennis Frieß – Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• Anna Mikhaylovskaya – University of Groningen
• Michaël Grauwde – Delft University of Technology
• Feline Lindeboom – University of Groningen

🔗 Click here for the full schedule

Participation

If you would like to participate, we kindly ask that you send an email to jans...@esphil.eur.nl with the subject: “Participation: ENCODE Workshop”. When confirming your participation, please also let us know if you would like to join us for dinner at 18:00 (at your own expense).

Participation is free of charge, but please note that spots are limited.

Best regards,

Nicolien Janssens

PhD Candidate (She/her)  | VIDI ENCODE project
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics