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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"online deliberation"”.
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Let's agree to agree : effects of self-awareness and social identity on online deliberation
… of ingroup versus outgroup communication in an online, one-on-one, anonymous setting on perceptions of deliberation quality in a conversation task pertaining to abortion policy. Additionally, the study examines the effects of different secondary goals during converstion tasks--those of …
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Deliberation and Decision Making Online: Evaluating Platform Design
This thesis explores the potential of ICT and online communication to deepen democracy and support large scale online deliberation. It draws together the most promising current practices in online deliberation, presenting a theoretical and empirical exploration of innovative online deliberation …
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Framing a Kidnapping: Frame Convergence between Online Newspaper Coverage and Reader Discussion Posts of Three Kidnapped Romanian Journalists
… Additionally, 2,941 of their subsequent online reader discussion posts were content analyzed using the same categories as the news stories to serve as a point of comparison between media reports and public discussion about this bizarre case. Results support evidence of generic media …
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The internet and deliberative democracy in South Korea
… democracy is a political system based on deliberation among free and equal citizens, and deliberation is considered as a core component of democracy. Deliberation can contribute to democracy in various ways, such as giving attention to the common good and improving opinion quality. Today, …
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The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations
For the past decade, online deliberation platforms like Polis have expanded the reach of deliberative democracy, which calls for political decisions to be based on the results of fair and balanced discussions among citizens, by enabling larger deliberations. However, as these discussions often …
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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.
… The empirical results suggest that whilst deliberation was negligible during the campaign, there are a number of coding schemes that when tailored to the appropriate platform are capable of capturing online deliberation. However, the process of recognising certain requisite components of …
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Online news commenting platforms as space for democratic deliberation : a study of selected Nigerian online news websites
… commenting has become part of the features of online news sites in Nigeria, providing space for readers to express their views on news content and to engage with other readers in discussion. Over time, these commenting sections have become a space for the exchange of acerbic and, beyond that, …
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Argumentation Stance Polarity and Intensity Prediction and its Application for Argumentation Polarization Modeling and Diverse Social Connection Recommendation
… This platform is unique as it encodes online discussions into weighted cyber argumentation graphs based on the user’s stances toward one another’s arguments and ideas. The resulting weighted cyber argumentation graphs can then be used by various analytical models to measure aspects of …
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Designing technologies for exposure to diverse opinions
… rise of ""echo chambers"" and ""filter bubbles"" online, with individuals' easy control over information exposure enabled by digital technologies. Such concern has motivated HCI researchers to study a class of diversity-enhancing technologies—information and social technologies that host diverse …