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		<title>AR; a reading diary of the New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without a doubt, Michael Schudson has quite some authority on the field of political communication and democratic theory; if he expected that he can get away with publishing a rather informal, not quite scientific paper in a scientific journal (Javnost &#8211; The Public), my guess would that he was right to do so.
Which doesn&#8217;t change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=403&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A working paper on measuring deliberation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;can now be downloaded from the &#8220;Papers&#8221; section of this blog. I decided to upload the paper which I prepared for our research seminar in its original form.

I wrote about the gist of it in the previous post: drawing on existing attempts to operationalize online deliberation, I developed a coding scheme measuring the reciprocity of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=401&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Operationalizing deliberation (2)</title>
		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/operationalizing-deliberation-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note.
For our research seminar, I finally put together a paper containing what hopefully will remain as basic pillars of my conceptualization and operationalization of deliberation. I start from a basic definition, review some existing conceptual approaches and coding schemes, and finally arrive at the conclusions that
a.) Deliberaton can mean any number of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=396&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Operationalizing deliberation</title>
		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/operationalizing-deliberation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been, for some time, working on conceptualizing and operationalizing &#8220;deliberation&#8221; &#8211; after all, this is what I&#8217;ll look for in analysing the discussions on social news websites.
Janssen and Kies (2005) offer a comprehensive rundown on previous attempts at pinning down what deliberation is. Steenbergen et al. (2003) go so far as creating a &#8220;Discourse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=392&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AR; Blogs as alternative</title>
		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/ar-blogs-as-alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A refreshing article by Linda Jean Kenix from the University of Canterbury &#8211; just published in JCMC &#8211; tries to set the record straight about &#8220;the state of the blogosphere&#8221; &#8211; that is, can we refer to that as some kind of alternative media?
Not really, if we define &#8220;alternative media&#8221; along the lines suggested by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=390&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AR; Against Deliberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;so is the title of an essay by Lynn M. Sanders, originally published in 1997 in Political Theory. (No link this time.) What is this about?
Well, deliberation, says Sanders, is perhaps too often regarded as some kind of panacea for the problems of democracies. An overly enthusiastic belief in the powers of deliberation overlooks its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=387&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discussion catalysts</title>
		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/discussion-catalysts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Combining the theoretical background provided by the Katz-Lazarsfeld two-step flow of communication theory (and its subsequent criticism and revisions) with a social roles perspective, a recent JCMC article looked at Usenet discussions to find out whether there is something special about those contributors who create popular threads &#8211; and if so, then what is it.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=382&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/378/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent JCMC article, Lu Wei examines different kinds of blog, as regards their &#8220;knowledge producing&#8221; potential &#8211; and tries to look at the socioeconomic differences that might be contributing to the observed difference.
First the results, and then some comments.

The main line of thought goes something like this. Knowledge production is a phenomenon that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=378&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two paragraphs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/two-paragraphs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Schütz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from &#8220;The Well-Informed Citizen &#8211; An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge&#8221; by Alfred Schütz. Emphasis added by me.

&#8220;The outstanding feature of a man&#8217;s life in the modern world is his conviction that his life-world as a whole is neither fully understood by himself nor fully understandable to any of his fellowmen. There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=375&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AR; political discussion frequency, network size, and heterogeneity of discussions</title>
		<link>http://raatali.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/ar-political-discussion-frequence-network-size-and-heterogeneity-of-discussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Not one of the snappiest titles ever, but the original &#8211; from William P. Eveland, Jr. and Myiah Hutchens Hively, is even longer. In their paper they have reviewed considerable amounts of previous research material on political discussion, and on this basis arrived at more accurate and hence more useful conceptualization of notions such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raatali.wordpress.com&blog=3467898&post=366&subd=raatali&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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