Platform affordances and deliberative democracy: Are productive online political conversations possible?

• In Event: Political Disagreement in Social Networks and Interactions

Brief Overview

This paper examines the interplay between platform affordances and political talk across the Twitter, Reddit, and Wikipedia talk pages. Looking at three distinct topics, we point to the affordances which help or hinder the quality of political talk.

Authors

• Eunbin Ha, Rutgers University

• Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University