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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…
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…
Agenda building y frame promotion en la campaña electoral de 2011: la circulación del discurso entre partidos, medios y ciudadanos
2014
El objetivo principal de este trabajo de tesis doctoral es el estudio de la circulación del discurso político en el espacio público durante la campaña previa a las Elecciones a las Cortes Generales de noviembre 2011. El estudio parte de una concepción de la esfera pública que incluye tanto a los medios de comunicación tradicionales como a las nuevas herramientas de comunicación digital, como los blogs. La hipótesis básica de investigación es que el pluralismo polarizado del sistema mediático español, que se caracteriza por una acusada histórica imbricación entre los partidos políticos y la prensa, dibuja un escenario en el que los partidos tienden a dominar la producción del discurso públic…
Working the fields of big data : Using big-data-augmented online ethnography to study candidate–candidate interaction at election time
2017
The paper proposes big-data-augmented ethnography as a novel mixed-methods approach to studying political discussions in a hybrid media system. Using such empirical setup, the authors examined candidate–candidate online interaction during election campaigning. Candidate–candidate interaction crossing party boundaries is scarce and occurs in the form of negative campaigning via social media, with the shaming of rival candidates and engaging in battles with them. The authors posit that ethnographic observations can be used to contextualize the computational analysis of large data sets, while computational analysis can be applied to validate and generalize the findings made through ethnography…