Realising Democracy Amid Communicative Plenty: A Deliberative Approach

不断增加的政治交流（特别是在线）对民主和有效的政策制定提出了挑战。这个项目的目的是检查是否，如何，为什么，以及什么效果的话语流动内和不同地点之间的新政治的沟通丰富。本研究应用了协商民主的思想，将公民和政策制定者之间有意义的沟通置于有效治理的核心。它开发了一个审议分析的争议围绕煤层气在澳大利亚，使用定性和“大数据”技术来收集信息。预计所产生的知识将为将协商民主付诸实践的努力以及更有效的环境治理提供信息。

The ever-increasing volume of political communication (especially online) challenges democracy and effective policy making. The aim of this project is to examine whether, how, why, and to what effect discourse flows within and between different sites in the new politics of communicative plenty. This research applies the idea of deliberative democracy, which puts meaningful communication between citizens and policy makers at the heart of effective governance. It develops a deliberative analysis of controversy surrounding coal seam gas in Australia, using qualitative and 'big data' techniques to collect information. The knowledge generated is expected to inform efforts to put deliberative democracy into practice, as well as more effective environmental governance.