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Online Political Discourse on Facebook: An Analysis of Political Campaign Communication in Austria

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Russmann, Uta
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Social media such as Facebook have the capacity to revolutionize public discourse as they encourage citizens to participate in politics and to engage with politicians. However, simply the fact that there is public discussion on political issues says yet nothing about its specific quality. From the viewpoint of Habermas’ concept of deliberative democracy (1987) we define that only political discussion, which is oriented towards communicative principles of understanding, can promote the development of a deliberative public sphere. Along an index of quality of understanding (Verständigungsorientierungsindex, VOI) we examine political parties and candidates’ Facebook communication (N=9428 posts and comments) during the most recent Austrian elections in Vienna in October 2010. The political discourse is following the principles of a quality of understanding if political actors do not only state their positions, but also give statements of reasons. If, in the case of debatable questions, they present specific proposals for solutions, they deal with others in a more or less respectful way and they express relevant doubts concerning positions and other participants.
Starting Page	115
Ending Page	125
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.5771/1865-4789-2012-3-115
Volume Number	5
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/1865-4789-2012-3-115.pdf?download_full_pdf=1
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5771/1865-4789-2012-3-115
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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