Civic technologies such as participatory budgeting and crowdsourced policymaking increasingly provide spaces for crowdsourced deliberation, an asynchronous, distributed, and self-selected form of deliberation. To understand the dynamics of crowdsourced deliberation, we examined deliberative quality, dis/agreement, and elaboration (rationale-sharing), and their association with idea generation in crowdsourced deliberation within a crowdsourced policymaking process led by a national government. The deliberative quality of the crowdsourced deliberation was high and positively associated with idea generation. Elaboration of perspectives was a key feature contributing to idea generation. We present considerations for the design of processes and platforms used in civic technologies to foster high deliberative quality, elaboration, and a balance of disagreement and agreement, which in turn can support idea generation in crowdsourced deliberation.

Cinematic Virtual Reality (CVR), or 360° video, engages users in immersive viewing experiences. However, as users watch one part of the 360° view, they will necessarily miss out on events happening in other parts of the sphere. Consequently, fear of missing out (FOMO) is unavoidable. However, users can also experience the joy of missing out (JOMO). In a repeated measures, mixed methods design, we examined the fear and joy of missing out (FOMO and JOMO) and sense of presence in two repeat viewings of a 360° film using a head-mounted display. We found that users experienced both FOMO and JOMO. FOMO was caused by the users’ awareness of parallel events in the spherical view, but users also experienced JOMO. FOMO did not compromise viewers’ sense of presence, and FOMO also decreased in the second viewing session, while JOMO remained constant. The findings suggest that FOMO and JOMO can be two integral qualities in an immersive video viewing experience and that FOMO may not be as negative a factor as previously thought.