Direct Engagement or Discursive Impact?

Repository Locke , Abigail Gendered emotion : personal , cultural or discursive ?

ing out from their participants’ talk, as something essential, and free of history and language, and I will draw on Langford’s work to demonstrate this point. Langford’s data is fascinating and as a discursive theorist, I wanted to take the analysis further and look at her participants’ accounts as particular constructions of events to perform certain interactional business. For example, Rose (...

Public Deliberations, Discursive Participation and Citizen Engagement: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Many theorists have long extolled the virtues of public deliberation as a crucial component of a responsive and responsible democracy. Building on these theories, in recent years practitioners from government officials to citizen groups, nonprofits, and foundations have increasingly devoted time and resources to strengthening citizen engagement through deliberative forums. Although empirical re...

Discursive Equality and Everyday Talk Online 1 Discursive Equality and Everyday Talk Online: the impact of “super-participants”

Empirical studies of online debate almost universally observe a “dominant” minority of posters. Informed by theories of deliberative democracy, these are typically framed negatively – yet research into their impact on debate is scant. To address this, a typology of what we call super-participation (super-posters, agenda-setters and facilitators) is developed and applied to the http://www.moneys...

Impact of Spam Exposure on User Engagement

In this paper we quantify the effect of unsolicited emails (spam) on behavior and engagement of email users. Since performing randomized experiments in this setting is rife with practical and moral issues, we seek to determine causal relationships using observational data, something that is difficult in many cases. Using a novel modification of a user matching method combined with a time series...

Patient engagement or social media marketing?