Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms

Esau, Katharina; Frieß, Dennis; Eilders, Christiane

doi:10.1002/poi3.154

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“…Not all opportunities for deliberation produce constructive public engagement and may potentially empower ‘mischief and abuse’ (Lackaff , p. 142; see also Aragón et al ). Platforms that encourage discourse moderation, provide information, and clearly define topics (Esau et al ) and that recruit reasonably diverse and open‐minded participants will improve deliberation (Garard et al ).…”

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Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

Ansell

Miura

2019

Public Administration

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Although not as eye‐catching as their business counterparts, many public and private institutions are currently experimenting with using platforms as a strategy of governance. Governance platforms are now being constructed by a wide array of actors at different geographical scales and across a wide range of issue areas. Although often enabled by digital technology, governance platforms fundamentally embody a new organizing logic to achieve distributed participation and mobilization. While private platforms are transforming the way that companies create and market their products or services and shifting the fundamental logic of how value is produced and appropriated, can this powerful organizing logic be harnessed for public as well as private purposes? We investigate how governance platforms generate powerful effects and survey the extant literature on governance platforms. We conclude that governance platforms do demonstrate promise, although they face a number of challenges.

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Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

Ansell

Miura

2019

Public Administration

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“…More recently, Esau et al () observed forums on news websites and Facebook, and examined how different designs can influence the debate. Based on Friess and Eilders (), their study also concludes that platform architecture—which they term “institutional input”—“enables and fosters deliberation” (Esau et al, , p. 4).…”

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“…The literature suggests that design is one of the most important features for shaping the characteristics of online deliberation and debate, and most researchers working on this subject have focused their analyses on comparing different structures (Esau, Friess, & Eilders, ; Jensen, ; Papacharissi, ; Sousa, ; Zittel, ). These works analyzed the effects of aspects such as moderation, availability of information, identification, etc.…”

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Context Matters! Looking Beyond Platform Structure to Understand Citizen Deliberation on Brazil'sPortal e‐Democracia

Mitozo¹,

Marques²

2019

Policy & Internet

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This article analyzes the participatory design of the Portal e‐Democracia, sponsored by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. More specifically, it examines how citizens took part in the online discussions about the Brazilian laws on the Budget Guidelines, the 2013 Annual Budgeting, and the Political Reform debates of 2013 and 2015. We hypothesize that discussion forums with identical structures can nevertheless host debates with very diverse characteristics. The methodological approach considers a quantitative content analysis, using descriptive statistics and correspondence analysis to examine how the forums’ features were related to their structure, in terms of user identification, openness and freedom of speech, agenda, and moderation. We also examine the quality of public debate in these arenas by considering the interactions with regard behaviors of justification, reciprocity, and respect. We find that, even though the space for debating was structurally the same, every forum had some particular characteristics concerning the discussions. This leads us to consider the issue at stake and the sociopolitical context as variables that are more important for characterizing the debate than structure per se.

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“…Isso agrega ao modelo a característica da replicabilidade para outras pesquisas, mesmo que haja limitações, as quais serão reconhecidas e apresentadas mais adiante. Além disso, comparações entre diferentes mecanismos (website e rede social, por exemplo) não seriam novidade no campo, uma vez que outros estudos, especialmente aqueles de deliberação online REZENDE, 2016;ESAU et al, 2016), já realizaram esse tipo de investigação, ao estudar comentários postados em páginas no Facebook, no Youtube e em blogs de política. Tais estudos, todavia, não se preocupam com uma análise unificada do desenho de diferentes mecanismos participativos, de que o modelo aqui apresentado pretende dar conta, por isso, optou-se pela diversidade de ferramentas para o estudo.…”

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Os Parlamentos Se (Re)conectam Aos Cidadãos: Um Modelo Metodológico De Estudo Do Desenvolvimento De Mecanismos Digitais Para Participação Política

Mitozo

2018

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A internet tem se constituído como uma plataforma adotada pelas instituições políticas, seja para alcançar votos em eleições ou para fortalecer a legitimidade das instâncias representativas. Estudar esses novos fenômenos, todavia, necessita de um desenho metodológico próprio, que lance mão tanto de elementos do campo político quanto do comunicacional. Desse modo, o texto tem por objetivo apresentar uma proposta metodológica de investigação de abertura à participação política em ambiente online, promovida por Legislativos em âmbito nacional. A abordagem apresentada propõe uma análise tanto de elementos qualitativos, como a informação que se pode depreender por meio de documentos e entrevistas com consultores legislativos, quanto observa quantitativamente as próprias ferramentas online desenvolvidas. A partir disso, encontram-se elementos da dinâmica interna dos parlamentos responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento dos mecanismos analisados, e são criados índices para avaliar a qualidade das referidas ferramentas.

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Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms

Cited by 93 publications

References 60 publications

Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

Context Matters! Looking Beyond Platform Structure to Understand Citizen Deliberation on Brazil'sPortal e‐Democracia

Os Parlamentos Se (Re)conectam Aos Cidadãos: Um Modelo Metodológico De Estudo Do Desenvolvimento De Mecanismos Digitais Para Participação Política

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