Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion?

Price, Vincent; Cappella, Joseph N.; Nir, Lilach

doi:10.1080/105846002317246506

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“…They also get to appreciate the extent to which the views of both groups are different (and perhaps even realize that the differences are not as significant as initially thought). This is consistent with the findings of Price et al (2002), who found "a positive association between exposure to disagreement and respondents' ability to generate reasons why other people might disagree with them" (p. 107).…”

Section: Can News Sites Stimulate Online Deliberation?supporting

confidence: 82%

Can news sites stimulate online deliberation? A study of readers comments posted on Folha.com

Sampaio¹,

Barros²

2012

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RESUMO -Este artigo avalia a deliberação em comentários de leitores no website do jornal Folha de S. Paulo. Para tanto, foram analisados 260 posts relacionados a quatro notícias. Além dos comentários, foram analisados o site do jornal, as ferramentas discursivas e o posicionamento político dos participantes. Concluiu-se que houve um considerável nível de deliberatividade nas discussões analisadas, mas também ocorreu excessiva agressividade entre os participantes. Com relação aos comentários postados, pode-se afirmar que a maioria dos participantes buscou a vitória no debate em vez da compreensão mútua. No final, o artigo considera como lidar normativamente com essa agressividade e tenta mostrar como há certo potencial para aumentar os valores democráticos por meio do fornecimento de ferramentas discursivas por sites de notícias. Palavras-chave: deliberação online; jornalismo online; jornalismo participativo; democracia deliberativa.AbStRAct: This paper assesses online deliberation on readers' comments on the website of the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. To this end, 260 posts on four different stories were analyzed. In addition to the comments, the newspaper's website, its discursive tools and the political stance of the participants, were examined. It was concluded that there was relevant deliberativeness in discussions but also excessive aggressiveness among participants. The comments posted revealed that most of the participants sought to win debates rather than promoting mutual understanding. Lastly, the paper discusses how to deal normatively with this aggressiveness and attempts to identify ways to increase democratic values through the provision of discursive tools by news sites. Key-Words: online deliberation; online journalism; participatory journalism; deliberative democracy ¿LOS SITIOS DE NOTICIAS PUEDEN ESTIMULAR LA DELIBERACIÓN ENLÍNEA? Un estudio de los comentários de los lectores publicados en Folha.comResumen: Este artículo evalúa los comentarios de los lectores de la página web del diario Folha de S. Paulo. Para ello, se analizaron 260 comentarios relacionados con cuatro noticias. Además de las observaciones, se analizaron el sitio electrónico del periódico, sus herramientas discursivas y el posicionamiento político de los participantes. Se concluyó que había un considerable nivel de deliberatividad en las discusiones examinadas, pero también una excesiva agresividad entre los participantes. Con respecto a los comentarios publicados, se puede afirmar que la mayor parte de los participantes buscaba la victoria en el debate en lugar de la comprensión mutua. Por último, el artículo considera cómo hacer frente normativamente a esta agresividad e intenta mostrar que existe cierto potencial para mejorar los valores democráticos proporcionando herramientas discursivas en los sitios webs de noticias. Palabras-clave: deliberación en línea; periodismo en línea; periodismo participativo; democracia deliberativa OS SITES DE NOTÍCIAS PODEM ESTIMULAR A DELIBERAÇÃO ONLINE?um estudo dos comentários de l...

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Section: Can News Sites Stimulate Online Deliberation?supporting

confidence: 82%

Can news sites stimulate online deliberation? A study of readers comments posted on Folha.com

Sampaio¹,

Barros²

2012

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“…Their work, as well as the study at hand, takes a minimalist approach to the study of deliberative democracy, that being a focus on the extent to which individuals are exposed to political viewpoints contrary to their own (see Mutz 2002, p. 111). A number of studies now confirm that exposure to diverse points of view is related to more informed political attitudes and in some cases leads to opinion change (Price et al 2002;Mutz 2006;Barabas 2004;Fishkin 1991;Ackerman and Fishkin 2004;Farrar et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 92%

Cross-Cutting Messages and Political Tolerance: An Experiment Using Evangelical Protestants

Robinson

2010

Polit Behav

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Democratic theorists believe that exposure to rationales for conflicting views augments deliberation and tolerance. Evidence suggests that people are more tolerant of opposing groups after being exposed to alternative points of view, yet it is unclear how source credibility and previous exposure to the source moderates this effect. Using experimental survey data from a sample of evangelical Protestant PAC donors, I manipulate Christian Right activists' exposure to dissonant messages on immigration reform and capital punishment and vary the source of these messages. I find that when the opposing viewpoints are attributed to a religious leader generally found outside the Christian Right social movement (a mainline Protestant), evangelicals are less tolerant than when attributed to a religious leader sometimes found within the movement (a Catholic). Moreover, I find the amount of contact with the respective religious group moderates source effects. In this way, the study reveals how social networks may moderate the effect of elite discourse on public opinion.Political tolerance-citizens' willingness to respect the rights and liberties of others whose opinions and practices differ from their own-has long been viewed as the bedrock of a democratic society. Political tolerance is thought to produce peace, stability and good governance. Thus, political scientists, and public opinion scholars in particular, are interested in determining the origins of politically tolerant attitudes and discovering the ways in which citizens' intolerance for dissimilar groups might be lessened.

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“…Some have argued that group-level effects are likely to be small or nonexistent (Luskin et al 2002), and a study of online deliberation (which, notably, does not include the face-to-face element central to our definition) found no group effects on individuals randomly assigned to one of 60 homogenous or heterogeneous group conditions (Price et al 2002). Nonetheless, long traditions in social psychology, economics, and sociology point to the critical importance of group-level analysis (see Mendelberg 2002 for a thorough overview).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%