Social and institutional conditions for the development of political trust in conflictual online deliberation.
- What contribution can conflictual online deliberation in a pluralistic society make towards building trust in democratic norms?
- What are the social mechanisms of political confidence-building in conflictual online deliberation and under what conditions will these mechanisms become effective?
- Which escalation dynamics can evolve in controversial debates in various contexts of online communication?
- What impact do the social embeddedness and institutional design of online deliberation have on conflict patterns and trust?
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ulf Tranow
Sociology
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ulf Tranow is assistant professor of Sociology at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf since 2013.
His research interests include sociological theories of action, social mechanisms of normative integration as well as problems of collective good and their solutions. At DIID, he is interested in the social, societal and institutional conditions for building political confidence in conflicting online deliberation processes.
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Gebäude 37.03, Ebene 03, Raum 05