{"id":1329,"date":"2009-06-20T02:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T07:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2009-06-20T02:33:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T07:33:42","slug":"facebook-and-public-deliberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/06\/20\/facebook-and-public-deliberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Public Deliberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&#038;quot\">I\u2019m currently working on a project exploring <em>Facebook<\/em> and public deliberation. In this project, I\u2019m asking questions like: What does <em>Facebook <\/em>portend for deliberative democracy? When, where, and how do <em>Facebook <\/em>and its users invite or obstruct the development of public argument\/s? How does <em>Facebook\u2019s<\/em> very form and content promote or impede opportunities for argumentation? Rosen (2007) asks some parallel questions: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&#038;quot\">What cues are young, avid social networkers learning about social space? What unspoken rules and communal norms have the millions of participants in these online social networks internalized, and how have these new norms influenced their behavior in the offline world? (p. 23)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&#038;quot\">We know very little about the potential for social networking sites to help or hinder public deliberation, and what kinds of norms are involved in these processes. As the site draws an increasingly large user base, this would appear to be a critical subject for argument studies. Overall, I\u2019m exploring the idea that <em>Facebook <\/em>has created civic spaces for a new kind of <em>networked argumentation<\/em>, which leverages the trust of anchored online identity and offline friendship toward social issues. Subsequently, I\u2019m wondering if some of the communication that occurs on <em>Facebook <\/em>could be viewed within the framework of what I term <em>diasporic-virtual publics<\/em>. Users create a diasporic-virtual public on <em>Facebook <\/em>by threading together central and peripheral friendships from the past and present. Despite the wide geographical dispersion of these friends\/acquaintances, each is moored in a past\/present relationship that carries implications for arguments and arguing online. At the same time, my current analysis is trying to figure out whether various facets of<em> Facebook <\/em>are anti-deliberative, in both content and form. I invite your critiques or extensions on this subject. . . . <span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Don <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently working on a project exploring Facebook and public deliberation. In this project, I\u2019m asking questions like: What does Facebook portend for deliberative democracy? When, where, and how do Facebook and its users invite or obstruct the development of public argument\/s? How does Facebook\u2019s very form and content promote or impede opportunities for argumentation? 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