Quality of online debate, content characteristics and forms of online discourse in political participatory processes.
- Which features of online discourse increase the quality of debate and decisions?
- What is the effect of interaction density, controversy, emotionality and reasoning in an online debate on the emergence of majorities?
- Under which conditions does online discourse promote consensus and which conditions lead to polarization?
- What role do story telling or personal experiences play in an online discourse?
Ansprechpartner
Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders
Communication Studies
Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders has been a professor for communication and media studies at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf since 2011. She is a member of the DFG research group “Political Communication in the Online-World”.
Her research deals with public discourses and public opinion formation and puts a focus on the role of established mass media and online-communication.
Within the DIID, her interest lies in the deliberative quality and the different types of processes in online-discourses in the realm of political participation.
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Katharina Esau
Communication Studies
Katharina Esau is a research associate at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Düsseldorf. She studied Social Sciences (Communication Science, Political Science and Sociology) (B.A.) and Political Communication (M.A.) in Düsseldorf.
Her research interests include online participation and deliberation, different forms of communication (argum-
entation, narration, emotional expression, humor) and the emergence of public opinion online. As part of the DIID, she is interested in online deliberation processes, automated analyses of online discussions (argument and emotion mining) and deliberative design of online discussions.