Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all.
A new web tool is being used to help foster sensible debate about the conflict in Gaza.
Debategraph is a browser-based web application that gives a visual representation of the intricate arguments and issues in a heated debate - more recently being used to create order from the chaos surrounding the crisis in Gaza.
Dilemmas in a General Theory
of Planning*
HORST W. J. RITTEL
Professor of the Science of Design, University of California, Berkeley
MELVIN M. WEBBER
Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Among the activities that people participate in on the Social
Web are argumentative discussions and decision making. This paper
analyzes a series of use-cases (from the perspective of social media sites)
that share the presence of such argumentative discussions and where
the structure of online discussions can be represented in SIOC. Our goal
is to externalize implicit argumentation structures hidden in the usergenerated
content. For capturing it and making it explicit, we propose a
SIOC Argumentation ontology module as a formal representation.