Abstract
In this study, we focus on models of civic debate suitable for use in Polish-Ukrainian internet projects, as well as methods of researching collective intelligence that can help to monitor particular aspects of such debates and consequently create social bridging capital between these groups. The dynamic socio-political situation of recent years, both in Ukraine and in Poland, has created new conditions. Anti-government protests and social turmoil related to the war in Crimea and Donbas, as well as a high level of migration in the region in a short period led to the creation of a multi-ethnic society. This brings opportunities for the development of a new type of social capital: A new participative model of social life based on internet projects, with a relatively low entry barrier, space for creativity, and the widespread use of ICT technologies, can provide the new ways of debating, civic engagement, and collective action. Our research, based on a multidisciplinary literature review, as well as a series of qualitative in-depth interviews (IDIs), proved that the selected collective intelligence (CI) research methods and debate models can help to develop internet communities that will contribute to building bridging capital between Poles and Ukrainians.
Highlights
Collective intelligence (CI) is a phenomenon studied in multiple disciplines such as decision-making, economics, internet science, computer and web science, sociology, political science, psychology, and even biology [1]
All this is based on collective work and cooperation, so the studies on CI mainly focus on the question: How groups of people collaborate together in a smart way
These topics are: Debate models existing in the public sphere, methods of researching CI compatible with these debate models and suitable in identifying their features in online projects, bridging social capital, and factors affecting its level in internet projects
Summary
Collective intelligence (CI) is a phenomenon studied in multiple disciplines such as decision-making, economics, internet science, computer and web science, sociology, political science, psychology, and even biology [1]. The idea of CI entails the utilisation of interactions in communities to create solutions, concepts, and ideas; selecting between the created alternatives, refining, implementation, evaluation, and gaining feedback All this is based on collective work and cooperation, so the studies on CI mainly focus on the question: How groups of people collaborate together in a smart way. The concept of CI is closely connected with the development of Web 2.0 and the interactions between users in online communities to create “added value” based on collective work and cooperation. It enables synthesis of knowledge, visualisation of arguments, open innovation, a reduction in the number of errors, coopetition and collective decision making. Either external resources of clustered knowledge available from experts in a given field or collective work on solutions by means of deliberation are used [8,9,10]
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