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Electronic Calendars (PDA) Electronic Calendars (PDA) and schedules of Politicians and schedules of Politicians The Web Presentation of Everyday Political Work : A Sociological and Computer Sciences Analysis Guillaume MARREL - Agor@ntic


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Electronic Calendars (PDA) and schedules of Politicians Electronic Calendars (PDA) and schedules of Politicians

The Web Presentation of Everyday Political Work : A Sociological and Computer Sciences Analysis

Guillaume MARREL - Agor@ntic (University of Avignon)

GDRI Web science meeting – Toulouse 2014-09-10/12

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One of the 2 axis of the Tr@nspolo Project One of the 2 axis of the Tr@nspolo Project

Transp + @ + Pol + O

Political and Organizational Transparency in the Digital Society Uses and Effects of Digital Tools on Democratic Participation and Political Work (France, Brazil, Quebec)

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Interdisciplinary and international research program

France

Agor@ntic UAPV

Brazil

Ciberdem UNIRIO

Quebec

UM

Political science Computer science Information sciences

Political and Digital Transparency

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General Problem : Political Transparency in the Digital Society General Problem : Political Transparency in the Digital Society

Transparency... ... is everywhere in the post-materialist and digital societies ... as an imperative of democratic societies

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General Problem : Political Transparency in the Digital Society General Problem : Political Transparency in the Digital Society

Transparency +

What are the effects of information tools (WEB) on transparency ? Is the WEB a digital answer to the deliberative request in the weakened democracies ?

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General Problem : Political Transparency in the Digital Society General Problem : Political Transparency in the Digital Society

Under what conditions the Web tools can be real vectors of transparency and participation Not just new instruments of concealment of public decision secrecy and reappropriation

  • f power by professionals?

2 axis

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Tr@nspolo Tr@nspolo

1 Changes in Politics Imposed by the Request of Transparency in Digital Societies 2 Development of Participatory Web as a Tool for Citizens Participation

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Axis 1 : Uses of Digital Tools of Political Transparency by the Leaders Axis 1 : Uses of Digital Tools of Political Transparency by the Leaders

How are the politicians affected by the diffusion of digital tools and by the myth of transparency ?

Is digital transparency a stress

  • r a resource to them ?

=> Focus on digital personnal agendas of politicians (PDA, ICal diaries...)

Marc EL BEZE and Guillaume MARREL (France)

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Politician's agenda ? Politician's agenda ?

Politics = 90% secrecy

➔ What is the daily schedule of the politician? ➔ What represent and govern mean on a daily basis? ➔ How digital tools and web transparency can help political

scientists to better know... ...what the day of a politician is realy made with? ...where is the border between secrecy and transparency?

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PDA

This kind of digital tool of management : = affects the political work by the streamlining of time = private archive and a database of the politician's schedule (events, dates, times, places, contacts...) = very useful to analyse politician's agenda = but most often unattainable... [Godmer & Marrel, 2014]

Politician's shared PDA

Problem of access to data.... What about the Web?

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Politician's PDA are also used in political communication strategies

  • n-line (web page, blog...)

Politician's Agenda Online

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= illusion of citizen control (accountability?) = valuable traces of the communication about the political work = an another kind of public archive of the politician's schedule = useful to analyse political communication strategies = by comparison with the Web feedbacks

Politician's Agenda Online

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Hide and Reveal Hide and Reveal

Politician's interest to hide vs Citizen's interest to reveal

Web = informations, comments and viewpoints on public events of the schedule of the leaders The Web could be about to renew the balance between secrecy and transparency in political life.

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Decrypt Web Feedbacks Decrypt Web Feedbacks

Web = corpus

= an inaudible and variable echo of the events of the politician's agenda = to be decrypted by Information retrieval

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...between What is being done What needs to be said What must stay secret The Web public feedbacks? ...between 4 spaces 1 Real schedule of the politician 2 Planning in the PDA 3 Online political communication 4 The Web echo?

Between secrecy and so called transparency ?

Discover what's going on in this political game...

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Analytic Comparison

Real schedule

  • f a politician work

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Privacy Secrecy

Personal (or shared) Agenda PDA Most often unattainable On-line agenda (communication

  • n selected events)

Audible To be structured Web feedbacks

  • n events

(medias & SN) Inaudible (noisy)

1 2 3 4

Secrecy

Transparency (?)

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A working prototype to make visible and compare political time uses

PDA Online agenda Web feedbacks

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First experiment on the PDA of a cooperative politician in France

PDA Web feedbacks

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Object Day Time Place Meeting in X 08/05/14 11:30-12:30 Paris, ... Appointment with Y 09/05/14 01:00-03:00 Rio, ... etc... WEB

PDA recovered from a leader consenting : Miss H. (Ical) Questions to Web sites

Who ? What ? When ? Where ? Answers Rebuilt schedule from echoes of the Web

  • Meeting in X, 08/05/14, in Paris...
  • Appointment with Y, 09/05/14, in Rio...
  • ...

Comparison

Importation in a data base

Working plan

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A question-answering system

=> a graphical user interface in HTML5 and CSS3 => two pages: 1) An import page 2) A search page

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The import page

  • for data from the corpus
  • after cleaning ambiguous expressions,
  • over a period of the agenda defined as “the

learning period”.

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The search page

  • based on a search engine in PHP language using

WampServer,

  • which targets selected websites
  • and for querying these sites by the command "wget"
  • and save the results in a text file.

=> Parsing => Segmentation => Similarity computation => Compactness computation

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Ongoing works in France

1) The tool for the rebuilding of the agenda by its echo on the web 2) The tool of textual comparison between the original PDA, and web feedback agenda 3) Search the entire Web via Google and not only predefined web site 4) The effective evaluation of the prototype

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...and in Brazil

Online agenda Web feedbacks PDA

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Q? 1: Is it possible to rebuilt a personnal agenda from the web without using a reference basis for asking questions? Digging up the Web and rebuilt events just using a name and keywords...? Q? 2: Interpret the lack of feedbacks ? (evaluation) Q? 3: Risk of producing a dangerous tool for civil liberties and respect for privacy ? (computer ethics)

Conclusion : 3 questions from many technical and ethical problems to solve

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