Facilitating personal deliberation online: Immediate effects of two ConsiderIt variations
Computers in Human Behavior, 2015 A healthy democracy requires cognizant citizens who are willing and able to make informed decisions about political issues. ConsiderIt is a software application aimed at facilitating and encouraging personal deliberation. This article reports on a pretest–posttest experimental study (N = 36) into the immediate effects of two possible variations of ...
Hans Stiegler, Menno D.T. de Jong
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Deliberating Issues or Discharging Feelings? A Closer Look at “Below-the-Line” Reader Comments on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and CommunicationsThe study addresses a concern over the quality of online news reader comments. Specifically, it examines how online reader comments contribute to deliberation from cognitive and interactive perspectives.
Jin Yang
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Crowd-sourced legislation and politics: the legitimacy of constitutional deliberation in Romania [PDF]
, 2015 Constitutional reform is a tedious process that requires long periods of time, a relatively broad consensus among political actors, and, often, popular approval.
Gherghina, Sergiu, Miscoiu, Sergiu
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Online Deliberation and the Public Sphere: Developing a Coding Manual to Assess Deliberation in Twitter Political Networks [PDF]
Javnost - The Public, 2020 To what extent are elements of rational-critical debate present in Twitter political networks? And to what extent are the discursive practices in these networks constitutive of a public sphere online? This research presents the different phases of a coding manual we developed to assess deliberation in Twitter political networks.
Esteve Del Valle, M. +3 more
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Do consumer voices in health-care citizens’ juries matter? [PDF]
, 2015 Background There is widespread agreement that the public should be engaged in health-care decision making. One method of engagement that is gaining prominence is the citizens’ jury, which places citizens at the centre of the deliberative process. However,
Kendall, Elizabeth +3 more
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The Virtual Agora Project: A Research Design for Studying Democratic Deliberation
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2005 In 2001, the National Science Foundation provided $2.1 million in funding for the Virtual Agora Project, a three-year exploration of the effects of online and face-to-face democratic deliberation. The project seeks to shed light on deliberation's effects
Peter Muhlberger
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communication +1, 2021 When in response to the spread of misinformation social media platforms publicly negotiate their role as providers and mediators of the online public sphere, they outsource the responsibility of scrutinizing information to public deliberation.
José Luis Quintero Ramírez
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Simulated jury decision making in online focus groups
, 2013 Purpose – A significant issue in jury research has been the use of individual jurors to analyse jury decision-making. This paper aimed to examine the applicability of computer-mediated communication to a mock jury deliberation study.Design ...
Klettke, Bianca +2 more
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Direct deliberative local governance using online media – consensual problem solving or a recalcitrant pluralism? [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes and analyses distinct patterns of 'governance conversation' observed in interactions on a discussion list that aims to support local, direct, governance in a geographically colocated community in South Africa.
Meehan, Anthony, Van Der Merwe, Rean
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Democratizing deliberative systems [PDF]
, 2012 'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic
Parkinson, John R.
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