Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace
Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace
Modeling social media support for the elicitation of citizen opinion
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling Social Media
Intentional modeling of social media design knowledge for government-citizen communication
MSM'10/MUSE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Analysis of social media and ubiquitous data
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There has been a growing concern regarding political disengagement among citizens within liberal western representative democracies. This concern has brought about calls for local political online forums to be used to support participatory and deliberative democracy online to reverse this trend. However, little empirical investigation has been conducted into what such forums can support in terms of deliberative democracy. This paper, focusing solely on deliberation will answer the following question: Can local political online forums support all categories of deliberation? A two pronged methodological approach consisting of both a quantitative deductive method and a qualitative inductive method was used to examine this research question. This paper argues that within the literature deliberation falls into three main categories. However, another form of online discussion was identified as part of this empirical research named Cross Cutting Discussion.