“…Lately the increasing need for self-governance in emergent communities, potentially geographically dispersed and typically communicating over SM, has given rise to a new genre of decision-making approaches. These approaches range from the simple 'outsourcing' of functions of traditional politics, such as campaigning [8], to a SM platform, through the very use of SM capabilities in ways that redefine the decision making process itself, such as expertise and trust-based vote delegation [27,24], grass-roots decision making infrastructure [2], or open innovation deliberation [3].…”