DG: Policy Made Public: Technologies of Deliberation and Representation in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

DG：政策公开：重建曼哈顿下城的审议和代表技术

• 批准号: 0306868
• 负责人: David Stark
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0306868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DG; Policy; Made; Public; Technologies

New digital technologies have figured critically in the process of deciding the future of Lower Manhattan after September 11th, not only supplying the infrastructure for soliciting public input but also opening new channels of communication between citizens, designers, advocacy groups, and decision-makers. This research builds on ethnographic work on organizational responses to September 11 and on the early stages of public dialogue about the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. One component of the current research is a comparative longitudinal study of participation in three public forums held to discuss the future of Lower Manhattan, forums that relied on face-to-face, exclusively online, and mixed technologies of deliberation. The project's second component focuses on the online dialogues themselves. A discursive analysis of a sample of the twenty-six online discussion groups that accompanied the face-to-face forum will identify the conditions that facilitate or obstruct group discussions to approximate the equality, reflexivity, reciprocity, and openness that scholars have seen as hallmarks of authentically democratic deliberation.The third and fourth components of the research turn to the process by which multi-vocal public dialogues are translated into "public concerns" and then into design plans. By compiling an archive of all the websites devoted to Lower Manhattan redevelopment issues and tracking changes in the form and structure of the websites over time, the project will examine how old and new advocacy groups are adapting to a political landscape in which new deliberative technologies may be challenging traditional mechanisms of citizen participation. In the fourth component of the research, the focus is on communication between citizens, on one hand, and architects and public officials on the other. Analysis of the website database will chart whether and how architects and urban planners are capitalizing on new digital technologies to involve residents more directly in design. Interviews with representatives of the agencies charged with overseeing the development process will examine whether and how they are relying on internet-mediated representations of the public in their decision-making-and with what effect.

新的数字技术在911事件后决定曼哈顿下城未来的过程中发挥了至关重要的作用，它不仅为征求公众意见提供了基础设施，而且为市民、设计师、倡导团体和决策者之间的沟通开辟了新的渠道。本研究建立在民族志研究的基础上，研究组织对9·11事件的反应，以及关于世界贸易中心遗址重建的公众对话的早期阶段。当前研究的一个组成部分是对三个公共论坛的参与情况进行比较纵向研究，这些论坛旨在讨论曼哈顿下城的未来，这些论坛依赖于面对面、完全在线和混合技术的审议。该项目的第二个组成部分侧重于在线对话本身。对面对面论坛的26个在线讨论小组样本的话语分析将确定促进或阻碍小组讨论的条件，以接近学者们视为真正民主审议标志的平等、反身性、互惠性和开放性。研究的第三和第四个组成部分转向了将多种声音的公共对话转化为“公众关注”然后转化为设计方案的过程。通过汇编所有致力于曼哈顿下城再开发问题的网站的档案，并跟踪网站的形式和结构随时间的变化，该项目将研究新旧倡导团体如何适应新的政治格局，在这种政治格局中，新的审议技术可能挑战传统的公民参与机制。在研究的第四个部分，重点是市民与建筑师和政府官员之间的沟通。对网站数据库的分析将揭示建筑师和城市规划者是否以及如何利用新的数字技术让居民更直接地参与设计。对负责监督发展过程的机构代表的采访将检验他们在决策过程中是否以及如何依赖于互联网媒介的公众代表，以及依赖于什么效果。