Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation

By S. Coleman, J. Gøtze. 2001

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Democracy, deliberation and design: the case of online discussion forums (2007, background): “The internet has been posited as a solution to this problem: it is seen as a tool by which the theory of deliberative democracy can be made practical through asynchronous1 discussion forums (Coleman and Gotze, 2001; Hauben and Hauben, 1997).”
Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression (2013, background): “Others have recognized in these types of tools a more appropriate medium for deliberation than synchronous channels (Coleman & Gotze, 2001) because they provide users a tool to compose messages at their own pace, constituting a more favorable channel for a rational–critical form of debate…”
Self-Governance Through Group Discussion in Wikipedia (2011, background): “Deliberative scholars have begun to turn their attention to online groups (e.g., Coleman & Gotze, 2001; Dahlberg, 2001; Davies & Gangadharan, 2009) and many forum organizers have begun to incorporate aspects of CMC to either supplement or replace face-to-face interaction (e.g., Cappella, Price, &…”