The Concept Outline

Why?

• Trustworthiness in a new media
• Appealing to the Reader
  • Larger point of view
  • Participation
• Appealing to the Author
  • Competition
  • More democratic method for visibility
• Provide the citizens with a better understanding of the argumentation process
• Allow the citizens to stimulate the public conversation
• Better understanding of historical arguments / debates
• More convergent process for developing intelligent arguments
• Need to reduce polarization. Ability to analyze arguments based a panoramic system.

What?

• Measuring Argument Relevancy
• Connecting Arguments
• Statistical Analysis
• Historical Analysis
• Argument Development Process
  • Iteration
    • Revision Control
    • Release Control
  • Reference Management
  • Community Feedback
• Personal Reader Feedback (visible between individual reader and author)
  • Argument Coaching
  • Redlining Argument
• Global Reader Feedback (available to the community)
  • Fallacy identifier
  • Fact Check

How?

• Non obtrusive polling scheme
• Panoramic system for measuring the worth of an argument
• Prevent dysfunctional divergence
  • Focus individuals on clarifying their point of view. An argument is owned by an individual are like thinking group
  • Developing an argument is an iterative process
  • Comment blogging is eliminated or is not a focal point
  • Feedback is channeled for argument improvement
  • Fact check or fallacy identification provides feedback as a manner of truth not opinion
• Steer similar arguments to converge in a collaborative effort
  • Proactively steer authors to similar arguments
  • To reduce clutter and promote quality, suggest similar arguments join forces
• More democratic method for being heard
  • Dynamic demographic method to target an argument. Arguments perculate from a smaller populace to a larger one. Feedback and coaching at a smaller granularity provides the motiviation and iteration to build a quality argument which is rewarded with visibility at a larger scale.
• Author directed scale of demographics
  • Not every argument requires the ear of the world. Many arguments can be handle within the confines of a targetted locale.
• Various views of arguments through argument connection. Connection is based on factors:
  • Relevancy
  • Reader interest
  • Computer heuristics
  • Time
  • Reader locale
  • Author locale
  • Author suggestion
  • Author categorization
• Focus on clarification and argument improvement. Prevent criticism from becoming the focal point. Prevent criticism from invoking divergence. Replacement for the existing newspaper media for distributing political debate. Various views include:
  • Populace scope:
    • Friends and Family
    • Local
    • Regional
    • National
    • Global
  • Query Views
    • Query By Author Dynamics
      • Age
      • Location
      • Political ideology
      • Political party
      • Religion
      • Gender
    • Query by Statistical Results
      • Age
      • Category
      • Location
      • Political ideology
      • Political party
      • Geometric Relationship to other arguments
      • Religion
      • Gender