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To understand the implications of changes in communications for democracy, online communications should be assessed as discursive actions that hint towards the potential existence of a public sphere. Assessing the existence of the core elements of this public sphere online, i.e. a rational-critical (Habermas, 1981) debate but also conflicting and polarized interactions (Warren, 2007), is especially relevant during the current epidemiological crisis which effects on the deliberative aspects of online political communications remain to be understood. Indeed, this crisis provides a unique opportunity to investigate whether and how an exogenous shock can affect discursive practices in online political networks. For instance, are the levels of reflexivity and critique of online political communications increasing during the pandemic? Or alternatively, communications in online political networks are becoming less reflexive and critical and more polarized. We invite contributions examining the deliberative aspects of communications taking place in online political networks during the Covid-19 crisis, especially those studying highly divisive political issues. We call for theoretically driven investigations and empirical research aiming to explore the deliberative aspects of political interactions in networked spaces. By networked spaces we mean here a wide range of computer-mediated communications, from social media platforms and online political fora to political parties’ online platforms. We especially welcome papers that tackle online deliberation by political parties through social media. Furthermore, we look for submissions methodologically innovative and for new measurement proposals that can expand our knowledge on online political deliberation.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Repost and Like: Securitization Theory in the Digital Age | View Paper Details |
| Safe deliberative spaces online between refugee-claimants and the international community | View Paper Details |
| Muslim immigration to the US: Ethnographic analysis of Facebook pages | View Paper Details |
| Political deliberation in the Spanish political parties’ Twitter-sphere. | View Paper Details |