Manifestations of deliberative democracy online: measuring quality of global public discussions on climate change on Facebook

The major purpose of this dissertation was to measure quality of preselected public discussions (in form of comments) generated on popular online social network Facebook. We used Discourse Quality Index as the main instrument to collect and analyze our empirical data. In particular, we measured how...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birbilaitė, Inesa
Other Authors: Balčytienė, Auksė
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT) 2013
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Online Access:http://vddb.laba.lt/fedora/get/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20131009_100901-11555/DS.005.1.01.ETD