News and Research articles on Participatory methods

Volume 14, Issue 4

Developing the Citizen Summit Method: Understanding citizens’ views on digital surveillance technologies

Sally Dibb, Manchester Metropolitan University
Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews Business School
Sara Degli Esposti, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2045

This paper discusses how to turn citizen summits into a robust, replicable, and participatory mixed methods approach for studying public views on digital surveillance technologies and other areas of internet policy.

KEYWORDS: Mixed-methods, Citizen summit, Deliberative methods, Participatory methods, Surveillance

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