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dc.contributor.authorJANSSEN, Davy
dc.contributor.authorKIES, Raphaël
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-19T12:48:07Z
dc.date.available2011-04-19T12:48:07Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationActa Politica, 2005, 40, 3, 317-335
dc.identifier.issn0001-6810
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/16509
dc.description.abstractThe Internet is rapidly becoming a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in the Western world. People perform various activities on the Internet and one of them is discussing politics and society in so-called online forums. In this article, we present an overview of some of the empirical research that evaluates the quality of political conversations in online forums. In the first section, we distinguish research on Usenet groups, web-based political forums and e-consultation forums, and discuss some its findings. In the second section, we elaborate three original categories of variables that attempt to explain differences observed in the quality of deliberation. The third, more extensive section deals with methodological issues. It discusses the operationalisation of deliberative quality and the application of a set of criteria for the idealized public sphere to online conversations. In the conclusion, we present some objections to the previous research and offer some ideas for a more comprehensive approach to online forum analysis.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.subjectinternet
dc.subjectonline forums
dc.subjectmeasuring deliberation
dc.titleOnline Forums and Deliberative Democracy
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500115
dc.identifier.volume40
dc.identifier.startpage317
dc.identifier.endpage335
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