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Designing Deliberation Systems

2010

In a liberal democracy, the evolution of political agendas and formation of policy involves deliberation: serious consideration of political issues.  Modern day political participation is dependent on widespread deliberation supported by information and communication technologies, which also offer the potential to revitalize and transform citizen engagement in democracy.  Although the majority of web 2.0 systems enable these discourses to some extent, government institutions commission and manage specialized deliberation systems (information systems designed to support participative discourse) intended to promote citizen engagement.  The most common examples of these are political discussio…

Usage of Facebook- and Anonymous Forum–Based Peer Support Groups Online and Their Influence on Perceived Social Support Types in Weight Loss

2016

This paper contributes to the discussion on health behavior change support systems by examining one of the persuasive software features, social support. The paper studies the influence of structural social support on functional social support types in the online environment. Specifically, the paper examines the frequency of using two different kinds of online social platforms (online forums and Facebook groups) that are used to facilitate peer social support in weight loss and their influence on perceived functional social support types (emotional, informational, and instrumental). The results show that frequent use of Facebook based support peer group facilitates perceived emotional, infor…

Negotiating multilingual discourse in a Finland-based online football forum : metapragmatic reflexivity on intelligibility, expertise and ‘nativeness’

2014

"Usually I like school PE, but..." : school physical education described in Internet discussion forums

2014

Proximité/distance comme catégories d'analyse pour la communication médiée par ordinateur : l'exemple de Twitter en allemand

2019

Doctoral; Les nouvelles technologies de communication (Schmitz 2004) – des sms d’antan aux messages snapchat d’aujourd’hui en passant par les réseaux sociaux devenus plus traditionnels comme Facebook – ont changé le rapport du locuteur/scripteur à la face matérielle de l’échange linguistique (Dürscheid/Frick 2016) ainsi que le résume, pour l’allemand, le titre de Lobin (2018), digital und vernetzt – das neue Bild der Sprache. A la suite des nombreux travaux portant sur l’écriture sms (par exemple Reinkemeyer 2013) ou encore du projet Whats’up Switzerland (Dürscheid 2018a, 2018b), la plateforme de microblogging Twitter attire de plus en plus l’attention des linguistes en tant que forme de Co…

Student’s voice online: Experiences of PE in Finnish schools

2012

The aim of this descriptive study was to find out how people describe their experiences of physical education (PE) in Internet discussion forums. The data for this study were collected during one randomly chosen week in April 2007 via a GoogleTM search using the Finnish word ‘koululiikunta’ [school PE]. The first 200 hits lead into nine discussion forums, which were analysed by using qualitative content analysis. These nine discussion forums included all together 356 messages. For searching these discussion forums no criteria about the writers’ age, race, class, gender or other were set. The messages were coded with sequential classification and grouped into positive, negative and both posi…

eParticipation:Designing and Managing Political Discussion Forums

2010

Author's version of an article published in Social Science Computer Review, 2010, 28 (4), 403-426. Also available from the publisher: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439309341626 eParticipation is the extension and transformation of participation in political deliberation and decision-making processes through information and communication technologies (ICTs). The most commonly found examples of eParticipation systems are political discussion forums. Although much of the discussion of these technologies is conducted in the eGovernment and eDemocracy literature, political discussion forums present a distinct set of design and management challenges, which relate directly to information systems c…

Les informations autour de l’alimentation-cancer : la responsabilisation et l’expertise au cœur des discours

2020

International audience; Cette contribution vise à étudier les discours médiatiques autour de la thématique de l’alimentation-cancer,mais aussi la production et le traitement d’informations entre patients atteints du cancer, afin de partager leurs expériences, leurs connaissances à l’intérieur de communautés numériques empiriquement et durablement construites. Une littérature foisonnante « anticancer » émerge depuis quelques années, disséminant de nombreux conseils pour adopter une alimentation qui permette notamment de prévenir l’apparition de la maladie. Les patients recherchent une information fiable et rassurante surlesrégimesalimentairesàadopteret/ouprivilégier.Partagercesinformationspa…

School PE through Internet discussion forums

2013

Background: Physical education is a subject that generates strong feelings and emotions, as can be seen in written accounts of PE experiences. It is also important to listen to students' voices in the research context. Nowadays, students can be listened to in a new way – through the Internet. Various discussion forums on the Internet make it possible for people to express themselves through real or imagined messages. It might be easier to express highly sensitive and even intimate thoughts on the Internet. Thus, the Internet might be an interesting open forum for teachers to think about new ways of developing teaching practices that would reduce negative experiences of PE.Purpose: The purpo…

Diffusion of digital culture: analysis of the Internet forum of a MOOC

2017

When MOOCs are increasing all over the world as a mean for improving the diffusion of culture and science, it is interesting to observe how those MOOCS build communities of knowledge, and which is the impact of those communities on the acquisition of knowledge. In this article, we present the principles of design of the MOOC Digital & Culture Writing that aims to spread digital culture. Then, we analyse the messages posted on forums by the related community, and the cognitive process to which they refer. Posts analysis reveals reflexivity processes when participants are writing on forums. It appears that reflexivity cognitive processes are at the heart of both social interaction and digital…