The Organizational Principles of Online Political Discussion
A Relational Event Stream Model for Analysis of Web Forum Deliberation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7295974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hai Liang (0000-0003-1779-9552, Department of Media and Communication; City University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 483-507 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Communication Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/hcre.12034 |
| OpenAlex | W1984991759 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 58 |
The structure of online political discussion has proven important to deliberative democracy. However, the organizational mechanisms of the structure receive little attention in scholarship. This study employed a random-effects relational event model to differentiate and examine the effects of a set of organizational principles in web forum discussions. By analyzing more than 175,000 forum replies, the study found that cross-ideological debate is an independent organizational mechanism even when accounting for the effects from common interests, opinion congruity, purely structural effects, and conversational norms. These findings differ from the selective exposure thesis and previous incidental claims of political disagreement. In addition, the findings indicate that endogenous mechanisms and opinion congruity could influence the tendency of cross-ideological debate to varying degrees
Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Ideology · Online discussion · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Team Coordination in Uncertain Environments
Social Network Analysis
Social-Psychological Influences on Opinion Expression in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Communication
Social Interaction and Contextual Influences On Political Participation
Fixed- and random-effects models in meta-analysis.
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election
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Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
Stigma
Interaction Ritual
The Internet and Democratic Discourse
Dynamic Debates
Online Groups and Political Discourse
Encountering “Difference” in the Contemporary Public Sphere
Beyond Deliberation
Politically Motivated Reinforcement Seeking
Perceived Versus Actual Disagreement
Hearing the Other Side
Public Deliberation, Discursive Participation, and Citizen Engagement
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Diversity of Political Conversation on the Internet
Selective Posting
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Democracy online
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Friends, Brokers, and Transitivity
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Public Beliefs About the Beliefs of the Public
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Homophily-Heterophily
Facilitating Communication across Lines of Political Difference
Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation
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Participation Shifts
Models of Turn Taking in Conversational Interaction
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| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |