You Say "Yes", I Say “No”: Capturing and Measuring ‘Public Opinion’ through Citizens’ Conversation Online (on the Russian-Language LiveJornal Blogging Platform)

Misnikov, Yuri

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40346-0_12

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“…Empirical evidence supports the effectiveness of using validity claims for identifying the collectively shaped social sentiment and values (Misnikov 2013;Chugunov et al 2016a, b). Only those posts contribute to solidarity formation that have been semantically validated by other discourse participants, i.e., responded to agree or disagree with the meaning the posts carry.…”

Section: Claims To Validity As a Methods Of Discourse Deconstructionmentioning

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Beyond Bureaucracy

Montargil¹,

Santos²

2017

Public Administration and Information Technology

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Section: Claims To Validity As a Methods Of Discourse Deconstructionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Beyond Bureaucracy

Montargil¹,

Santos²

2017

Public Administration and Information Technology

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“…In our research, we employ a method of discourse analysis developed by Yu. Misnikov and described in his PhD thesis (2011) and other works (Misnikov, 2010;2012). We refer to the "Deliberative Standard to Assess Discourse Quality", which introduces seven thematically different discursive parameters corresponding to specific research issues to guide the process of encoding Internet discussion messages: a) participatory equality and posting activism; b) civility; c) validity claim-making and consensual practices; d) intent of speech acts; e) discursive interactivity and dialogism; f) argumentation; g) thematic diversity.…”

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Low Civility and High Incivility in Russian Online Deliberation

Volkovskii¹,

Filatova²

2023

KOME

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One of the most studied fields in deliberative research is (in)civility in Internet-based political discussions on issues of common concern. Uncivil behaviour demonstrated by participants in online communication has various forms and negative effects on the process and outcomes of e-deliberation as well as on deliberators’ reactions and attitudes, which have been predominantly investigated in Western democracies. However, this issue has been poorly covered in the countries with less stable democratic traditions and values. This paper explores speech culture with a focus on civility and incivility in Russian political conversations conducted on Russian social media. The authors analyse mass-scale web political discussions on a polarising issue of the court sentence of the politician Alexei Navalny (2021), taking one of the most popular Russian social networks VKontakte. For this study, scholars use discourse analysis based on the works on deliberative democracy proposed by J. Habermas (1996). They conclude that Russian political speech regarding Navalny’s sentence and conducted on the VKontakte social media platform can be characterised by a great extent of uncivil speech unbalanced by a low extent of civil speech. The conversations are not oriented towards mutual recognition or reaching a consensus, as participants are often distracted from the main issue being discussed, and turn to interpersonal topics instead.

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“…As mentioned above, the research method was based on content coding to reveal the Habermasian claims to validity of normative rightness present in discussion content, i.e., in the comments posted by discussion participants (Misnikov, 2013). The revealed validated claims were further coded to describe the various parameters of discourse quality grouped into three deliberative standards: (a) interactivity, (b) civility and (c) argumentation.…”

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Public Deliberation in Russia: Deliberative Quality, Rationality and Interactivity of the Online Media Discussions

Filatova

Kabanov

Misnikov

2019

MaC

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Deliberation research is now undergoing two emerging trends: deliberation is shifting from offline to online, as well as from an inherently democratic concept to the one applicable to less competitive regimes (He & Warren, 2011). The goal of this article is to study the peculiarities of deliberative practices in hybrid regimes, taking online discourse on the Russian anti-sanctions policy as a case. We use the Habermasian concept of basic validity claims to assess deliberation quality through the lens of argumentation and interactivity. Our findings suggest that deliberative practices can exist in non-competitive contexts and non-institutionalized digital spaces, in the form of intersubjective solidarities resulting from the everyday political talk among ordinary citizens. Such deliberations can be counted as argumentative discourses, although in a special, casual way—unlike the procedural rule-based debates. Generally, as in established liberal democracies, deliberation in Russia tends to attract like-minded participants. While the argumentative quality does not seem to vary across the discussion threads sample, the level of deliberative interactivity is higher on pro-government media, accompanied with the higher level of incivility. On the other hand, discourses on independent media are distinctively against the government policy of food destruction. The democratic value of such deliberations is unclear and might depend on the political allegiance and ownership of the media. Though some discourses can be considered democratic, their impact on decision-making remains minimal, which is a key constraint of deliberation.

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You Say "Yes", I Say “No”: Capturing and Measuring ‘Public Opinion’ through Citizens’ Conversation Online (on the Russian-Language LiveJornal Blogging Platform)

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

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Low Civility and High Incivility in Russian Online Deliberation

Public Deliberation in Russia: Deliberative Quality, Rationality and Interactivity of the Online Media Discussions

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