C Sims - Information, Communication & Society, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Prevailing approaches for studying relations between digital media and social inequalities focus on 'differentiated uses' of digital media. Since differences in access do not fully …
Objective Considering the increasing popularity of public engagement in health policy, this study aims to identify how asymmetries in online public deliberations are measured and to …
This paper examines the quality of online political discussions from the perspective of deliberative democracy. Reason-giving and mutual respect are two important principles of …
W Zhang, L Chang - Communication Theory, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivated by the theoretical debate on whether everyday talk qualifies as part of the deliberative system, this study employed 2 middle-range concepts, perceived speech …
Technology heavily drives communication research in the computational turn, yet our research programs seldom reflect this heightened relevance of technology in both everyday …
This article focuses on a popular form of civic practice in China: casual political talk that occurs in online spaces that are not ostensibly political. We investigate how Chinese citizens …
COVER STORY nations. Business, likewise, has an assortment of institutions and events for deliberation and decision making, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the World …
V Liston, C Harris, M O'Toole - Policy & Internet, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an experimental model for citizen deliberation that bridges the gap between developments in normative deliberative theory, and online participation and …