I just read an article by Seong-Jae Min titled “Online vs. Face-to-Face Deliberation: Effects on Civic Engagement”.
In this article the author discusses how online vs. face-to-face deliberation affects a person’s opinion and knowledge of political and social issues. This was done by performing their own controlled experiment using a group of university students. The students were split into a online, face-to-face, and control group.
It was very surprising to see just how little impact the deliberation had on the opinions of all three groups. It turned out that those that changed generally intensified their original opinion versus having a complete change of opinion.
It was shown that although there was little change of opinion there was still a positive increase on the persons knowledge of the subject. This was a very informative article that made it clear just how little research has been put into this issue and the fact that there can be both positive and negative aspects to online deliberation. If you are interested in how online deliberation compares with face-to-face then this would be a good read.
Min, Seong-Jae. “Online vs. Face-to-Face Deliberation: Effects on Civic Engagement.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 2007. 01 Mar. 2008 <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/min.html>.
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