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Van Der Merwe, Rean (2013). Hyperlocal Online Deliberation and Civic Governance: A Sociotechnical Perspective. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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van der Merwe, Rean and Meehan, Anthony (2012). Direct Deliberative Governance Online: Consensual Problem Solving or Accommodated Pluralism? Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 9(1) pp. 46–63.

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Van Der Merwe, Rean and Meehan, Anthony (2011). Direct democracy catalysed by resident-to-resident online deliberation. In: Tambouris, Efthimios; Macintosh, Amm and de Bruijn, Hans eds. Electronic Participation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6847). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, pp. 169–179.

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Van Der Merwe, Rean (2010). Investigating direct deliberative governance in online social media [PhD Probation report]. Technical Report 2010/07; Department of Computing, The Open University.

Van Der Merwe, Rean and Meehan, Anthony (2010). Direct deliberative governance and the Web: The collaborative work of democratic decision-making mediated by an online social environment. In: Proceedings of COOP 2010 (Lewkowicz, M.; Hassanaly, P.; Rohde, M. and Wulf, V. eds.), Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Springer, London, U.K., pp. 183–202.

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Van Der Merwe, Rean and Meehan, Anthony (2010). Direct deliberative local governance using online media – consensual problem solving or a recalcitrant pluralism? In: De Cindio, F.; Macintosh, A. and Peraboni, C. eds. From e-Participation to Online Deliberation, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation, OD2010. Leeds, UK, 30 June - 2 July, 2010. Leeds, UK: University of Leeds.

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Van Der Merwe, Rean D. and Meehan, Anthony S. (2009). e-Governance: Supporting pragmatic direct deliberative action through online communities of interest. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International IDIA Development Informatics Conference, 28-30 Oct 2009, Berg en Dal, South Africa.

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van Der Merwe, Rean (2008). e-Democracy driven by civil society: Developing a theoretical basis to design for bottom-up participation. In: 5th Prato Community Informatics & Development Informatics Conference, 27-30 Oct 2008, Prato, Italy.

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