Technology is more and more providing planners and designer with tools and methods to collect and communicate spatial data and assist spatial analysis. When we think about new technologies supporting planning we mainly think about GIS, urban modelling, simulation models and virtual reality. But many other challenges to the planning practice need for tools to support and improve planning activit...

Over the past few years, Italy has been setting stage for different democratic innovations, especially
 those that have implemented at municipal (or sub-municipal) level in parts of country.
 The expansion Participatory Budgeting a remarkable one, accompanied by diffusion of
 regional laws were adopted to promote culture more intense civic participation. Moving from
 an over...

Technology is more and more providing planners and designer with tools and methods to collect and communicate spatial data and assist spatial analysis. When we think about new technologies supporting planning we mainly think about GIS, urban modelling, simulation models and virtual reality. But many other challenges to the planning practice need for tools to support and improve planning activit...

We present evidence for a nonstrategic monitoring of event-based plausibility during language comprehension by showing that readers cannot ignore the implausibility of information even if it is detrimental to the task at hand. In two experiments using a Strooplike paradigm, participants were required to provide positive and negative responses independent of plausibility in an orthographical tas...

This paper proposes a new way of looking into the „sociality‟ of social (network) games. On the basis of looking closely at the development of Frontierville, a popular Facebook game, and more abstractly at the development of its fellow Zynga Facebook-based games (such as Farmville or Cityville), we argue that various network-based forms of participatory design are increasingly becoming both inf...

In this work we describe two instruments for introducing evolutionary behavior into intelligent systems. The first is the hierarchical prioritized structure (HPS) and the second is the participatory learning paradigm (PLP).

The Internet enables entirely new forms of interactive mass communication, which require novel ways of sociotechnological system design. It is argued that the e-democracy domain is an ideal field of application for what is here called ‘social intelligence design’. We suggest that the democratic and communicative potential of the Internet can be exploited in order to help strengthening the legit...

European citizens need their own permanent participatory mechanisms in the legislative procedure to exploit full potential of citizens’ participation strengthen EU democratic legitimacy. The Citizens’ Initiative is a unique transnational tool for democracy, but it an agenda setting instrument, challenging use and with limited impact. consultations other channels input, such as REFIT Platform Be...

The increased recourse to soft law by the European Union (EU) as a flexible solution complex social and policy issues has raised several questions about democratic legitimacy of decision-making at EU level. With aim provide normative direction for future empirical assessment law, this article explores credentials that measures should fulfil ensure their legitimacy. Drawing from intersections li...