The Theory And Practice Of Democracy In Virtual Worlds
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The document discusses the interplay between democracy and virtual worlds, emphasizing how online experiences influence and are influenced by the real world. It addresses the need for a theoretical framework and practical applications of democracy in virtual spaces, including voting systems and the role of identity. The lecture presents a call for exploring the value of virtual democracy through empirical studies and collaborations.
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The Theory And Practice Of Democracy In Virtual Worlds
- 1. The Theory And Practice Of Democracy In Virtual Worlds CRAEDO Auditorium Inaugural Lecture, Colonia Nova, Second Life 10 February 2007 David Orban
- 2. What Are We Going To Talk About? Objective Real polity constructors New choices Law, and justice Practice as humans The cloud of will Evolving freedoms Discussion
- 3. The interconnected worlds The online worlds cannot exist without the real world, which they influence, and by which they are influenced. We have to show that the activities in online worlds benefit the real world, improving its values, processes, and heightening its goals.
- 4. Constructors Of Real-World Polities Access to Property Resources Knowledge Acceptance of laws of nature even without understanding what you cannot reject
- 5. Changing Definitions To Fit The New Traditional definitions of democracy suffice? Territory Citizens Deliberation/Action Where is the State? What sovereignty?
- 6. The Legal Foundation Is Reality Online Terms of service Rights Land lease Property Integration of the economy Consensual reality Human law, not natural law
- 7. Theory Of Democracy (in VWs) Falsifiable hypotheses Formal framework Expected results Extensible Non-trivial Cui prodest?
- 8. Practice Of Democracy (in VWs) Repeatable Experiments Data collection Numerical analysis Representative vs direct Electronic voting Non-unary voting
- 9. Practice As Humans Reputation Creativity Emancipation Mutual enhancement Reach
- 10. Legislative Power In Virtual Worlds Software architect Bolder experimenter Changing perspectives
- 11. The Judiciary's Role In Virtual Worlds Debugging bad legislation Virtuous circle Quick turnaround Enforcing reality's grip
- 12. Coevolution With Reality Evolution is adaptation, not progress Co-evolving systems diffuse good tricks vDemocracy can influence rDemocracy We must show value through maximized utility
- 13. The Challenge Of Multiple Identities The breakdown of the suspension of disbelief Acceptance of finer grained differences Managing what we are and what we become
- 14. The Cloud Of Will Avatars and agents Loosely coupled decision algorithms Substitute agents in the center! Acceleration and efficiency requires emancipation of delegated decision making
- 15. The Evolution Of Freedom Interoperability Interaction Contrast of creation/destruction Guarantee of a frontier and exploration
- 16. Contacts David Orban 'Davidorban Agnon' [email_address] www.davidorban.com/wiki Slides on: slideshare.net Video on: video.google.com On the wiki you can download this presentation and collaborate to explore the themes expressed. Shared under Creative Commons Attibution 2.5
- 17. Sources, credits, and thanks Gianni Degli Antoni Michel Manen Craedo Care Confederation of Democratic Simulators Daniel Dennett Joi Ito Linden Labs Wikipedia All images from Flickr.com: josefstuefer daquellamanera wallyg hugovk nicmcphee evanosherow extranoise alphageek mugley horizon shaymus22
Editor's Notes
- #2: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of this auditorium. After the presentation we will open the discussion, and I will be very glad to answer all your questions during our live chat.