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Rediscovering the Civic and Achieving Better Outcomes in Public Policy

Grant reference: RES-177-25-0002

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Title Understanding online engagement (2)

Description This briefing offers further findings from the online discussion forum experiment introduced in Policy Briefing Number 4. It summarises findings from the analysis of the surveys completed by the majority of the 6,000 participants in the experiment and the use of the discussion boards. The briefing focuses in particular on the extent to which participants changed their policy preferences and how they responded to each other’s contributions.

Url http://www.civicbehaviour.org.uk/documents/PolicyBriefingNo7OnLineDeliberation2.pdf

Url Description Full text

Language English

Primary contributor

Author Graham Smith

Keywords

online engagement; deliberation; civic behaviour; discussion forums; online information; web sites; online services

Additional details

Is this item peer reviewed? No

Publisher University of Southampton School of Social Sciences

Date of publication 01 January 2010

Series title University of Southampton School of Social Sciences policy briefing

Economic and Social Research Council Shaping Society