Via information aesthetics blog, the BBC has produced a visualization of the commentary they’ve received regarding their controversial discussion of the changing role of whites in Britain. With a strong semantic or language processing component, reminiscent of a stamen design project, the comments are sortable by intensity of emotion, location, agreement level, and emotion group.
As visualizations of deliberative and evaluative conversations improve, the pressure placed on conversants will be released somewhat. It seems to me that participants in a dialog are more likely to contribute constructively if they can visualize the rest of the discussion more completely and accurately, understanding that their viewpoint exists within a context of similar and dissimilar ideas.
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