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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"online debate"”.
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Collective debate
Participating in online debate can expose people to diverse viewpoints, and thereby reduce polarization of opinion over controversial issues. However a lot of online debate is hostile and further dividing -we need tools that facilitate meaningful back and forth discussion. For my thesis work I …
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Investigating Natural Language Interactions in Communities
… persuasive skill over time. Using data from an online debate forum, we construct a model of debater skill based on on the Elo ranking model and incorporate historical lingusitic data. In order to estimate skill, we frame our prediction task to forecast the outcome of a debate. Though this work …
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The digital divide in South Africa : identifying emerging inequalities in Internet access and online public spheres
… the Internet users who participate in debate and discussion on MyNews24, a South African "citizen journalism" portal on News24. The four possible models of the digital divide will be further evaluated based on the results of these findings. It is here where MyNews24 will also be …
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An analysis of the relevance of deliberative democracy, agonistic pluralism, and pluralist group theory in explaining Twitter activity during the Scottish independence referendum 2014.
… appropriate platform are capable of capturing online deliberation. However, the process of recognising certain requisite components of deliberative exchanges is particularly challenging from remote settings. Agonistic pluralism was found to be somewhat representative of the online debate, …
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Measuring the Counter/Assumption Model's Effect on Argumentation Quality
… encouraging conflict. Research suggests that debates with more conflict are better, so this thesis investigates whether Counter/Assumption model encourages better debates.</p> <p>In this thesis, we have students debate on See the Reason and the closest existing platform, CreateDebate. We …