Designers of online deliberative platforms aim to counter the degrading quality of online
debates. Support technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing …

In his overview of the central currents within the scholarly and public debate on digital
democracy, Dahlberg (2011) identifies deliberative democracy as one of four pillars of …

Abstract The E-Participation Index of the United Nations E-Government Survey (EPI) has
become an important data source on e-participation progress around the globe. However, its …

Researchers using deliberative techniques tend to favour in-person processes. However,
the COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to the question of whether meaningful …

Deliberation research is now undergoing two emerging trends: deliberation is shifting from
offline to online, as well as from an inherently democratic concept to the one applicable to …

With the proliferation and application of democratic innovations around the world, the
empirical study of deliberative and participatory processes has shifted from small-scale …

For contemporary societies, digital democracy provides a key concept that denotes, in our
understanding, the relationship between collective self-government and mediating digital …

Online deliberation research has recently developed automated indicators to assess the
deliberative quality of much user-generated online data. While most previous studies have …

Can we rebuild trust in a time of increasing conflict and paralysis? Or rather, can we build
trust, for the first time, wide and strong enough to bring us together to work on the complex …

This study explores the democratic value of political discussion on Facebook using theory
triangulation and operationalizing three models of democracy. It aims to determine which …