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Han Woo Park - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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measuring twitter based Political participation and Deliberation in the south korean context by using social network and triple helix indicators
Scientometrics, 2012Co-Authors: Han Woo ParkAbstract:This study investigates the role of Twitter in Political Deliberation and participation by analyzing the ways in which South Korean politicians use Twitter. In addition, the study examines the rise of Twitter as user-generated communication system for Political participation and Deliberation by using the Triple Helix indicators. For this, we considered five prominent politicians, each belonging to one of four Political parties, by using data collected in June 2010. The results suggest that non-mainstream, resource-deficient politicians are more likely to take advantage of Twitter's potential as an alternative means of Political participation and that a small number of Twitter users lead Political discourse in the Twittersphere. We also examined the occurrence and co-occurrence of politicians' names in Twitter posts, and then calculate entropy values for trilateral relationships. The results suggest that the level of Political Deliberation, expressed in terms of the level of balance in the communication system, is higher when politicians with different Political orientations form the trilateral relationships.
Kristin Plys - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Deliberation and democratic reversal in India: Indian coffee house during the emergency (1975–77) and the third world “totalitarian moment”
Theory and Society, 2017Co-Authors: Kristin PlysAbstract:While the coffee house as a space of Political Deliberation has been a common feature across the globe, there are few historical cases in which one can analyze the role of such face-to-face Political Deliberation under totalitarian moments in heretofore democratic states. Of the analogous cases of democratic reversal, India is one of the most important and under-researched. In 1975, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted of corrupt election practices. Rather than concede to the high court ruling, she suspended the constitution and installed herself as India’s sole Political authority. The Indian Coffee House in New Delhi became the key site of resistance to the Emergency (1975–77). The totalitarian moment pushed contentious politics into the Coffee House, initially galvanizing it: even the older members of Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, who were active participants in India's Freedom Movement, were key participants in coffee house Deliberations. Eventually, however, Indian Coffee House was bulldozed and Political Deliberation crushed. The space of the coffee house may foster Political Deliberation among different viewpoints, but when interaction is concentrated in one such space, it becomes easier for the state and its agents to suppress oppositional politics and more difficult for both establishment and oppositional politics themselves to retain a diversified public sphere character. While coffee houses and analogous institutions are not adequate substitutes for other forms of democratic politics, therefore, they can encourage expression when other avenues are closed off and nourish the memory of a democratic Political culture for the future.
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Political Deliberation and democratic reversal in india indian coffee house during the emergency 1975 77 and the third world totalitarian moment
Theory and Society, 2017Co-Authors: Kristin PlysAbstract:While the coffee house as a space of Political Deliberation has been a common feature across the globe, there are few historical cases in which one can analyze the role of such face-to-face Political Deliberation under totalitarian moments in heretofore democratic states. Of the analogous cases of democratic reversal, India is one of the most important and under-researched. In 1975, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted of corrupt election practices. Rather than concede to the high court ruling, she suspended the constitution and installed herself as India’s sole Political authority. The Indian Coffee House in New Delhi became the key site of resistance to the Emergency (1975–77). The totalitarian moment pushed contentious politics into the Coffee House, initially galvanizing it: even the older members of Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, who were active participants in India's Freedom Movement, were key participants in coffee house Deliberations. Eventually, however, Indian Coffee House was bulldozed and Political Deliberation crushed. The space of the coffee house may foster Political Deliberation among different viewpoints, but when interaction is concentrated in one such space, it becomes easier for the state and its agents to suppress oppositional politics and more difficult for both establishment and oppositional politics themselves to retain a diversified public sphere character. While coffee houses and analogous institutions are not adequate substitutes for other forms of democratic politics, therefore, they can encourage expression when other avenues are closed off and nourish the memory of a democratic Political culture for the future.
Arthur D. Santana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Deliberation on facebook during electoral campaigns exploring the relevance of moderator s technical role and Political ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political Deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political ideology for online Deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality Deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online Deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for Deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of Deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
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Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political Deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political ideology for online Deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality Deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online Deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for Deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of Deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
Lindita Camaj - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Deliberation on facebook during electoral campaigns exploring the relevance of moderator s technical role and Political ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political Deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political ideology for online Deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality Deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online Deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for Deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of Deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
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Political Deliberation on Facebook during Electoral Campaigns: Exploring the Relevance of Moderator’s Technical Role and Political Ideology
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2015Co-Authors: Lindita Camaj, Arthur D. SantanaAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study examines the potential of Facebook to provide a channel of Political Deliberation during electoral campaigns. Through a comparative content analysis of user-generated Political commentary on candidates’ Facebook pages during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, it explores the technical role of moderators and moderators’ Political ideology for online Deliberation. Results show that social networking sites (SNSs) can represent spaces that accommodate a new public sphere and that quality Deliberation can occur even in nonPolitical platforms. However, the quality of online Deliberation depends on the socioPolitical context in which it occurs rather than on the technological use of online spaces for Deliberation. Although Political discourse in moderated sites showed more sophisticated argumentation, Political ideology did not seem to matter for the quality of Deliberation. Rather, the quality of the discourse depended on the particular candidate’s use of the Facebook platform as a too...
Charles N. Herrick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Objectivity versus narrative coherence: Science, environmental policy, and the U.S. Data Quality Act
Environmental Science and Policy, 2004Co-Authors: Charles N. HerrickAbstract:In this paper it is argued that mischaracterization concerning the use of science in the U.S. policy process has lead to unreasonable expectations about the role that scientific information can play in the development of environmental and public health policies. This in turn has lead to implementation of misguided and self-defeating policy initiatives designed to ensure the objectivity or "soundness" of scientific inputs to the policy process. This argument is illustrated through critical deconstruction of the recently implemented U.S. Data Quality Act. The interpretative and socially constructed character of scientific findings is well established across fields as diverse as the philosophy and history of science, science and technology studies, and the sociology of science. It is demonstrated that scientific assessment in a policy context rarely - if ever - lends itself to dichotomous characterizations such as "objective/non-objective." This suggests the futility of policy initiatives designed to insure the purported objectivity of data and information used for Political Deliberation and/or policy decisions. An alternative perspective regarding the role of science in Political Deliberation and public policy is offered, drawing on the narrative school of policy analysis as articulated by Giandomenico Majone, Emery Rowe, Barry Bozeman and others. Under this view, scientific findings draw much of their validity through the context of their application in policy narratives. As a coda to the essay, it is suggested that similar perspectives underlie debates concerning both The Skeptical Environmentalist and the Data Quality Act. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.