0 a place or website where a subject can be discussed -- forum [ neuter ]
an international forum on globalization et internasjonalt forum om globalisering
an Internet forum et internettforum
1 any public place in which discussions take place, speeches are made etc -- forum
2 a market-place in ancient Roman cities and towns. -- forum
Examples of mediation systems are discussion fora, where it is important to argue and negotiate about dierent issues, including design issues.
The surge of these patent medicines was contingent on the expansion of forums for broad advertising in the periodical press.
Discussion forums and mailing-lists facilitated the emergence of common interpretative schemes among activists and organisations.
In these forums, causal stories are fought for, defended and sustained by the actors of the policy network.
Each task force holds one or more open forums at a major national anesthesia meeting to solicit input on its draft guideline from meeting attendees.
Such constraints were strongly expressed in interviews with citizens and officials participating in local forums.
Active inclusion in state-sponsored deliberative forums may play a vital part in such a strategy.
Such occasions also had the unintended consequence of providing public forums for expressions of opposing viewpoints.
