This study examines how youths discuss politics in online forums in relation to the conditions of deliberative communication. To assess if, and to which extend the communication is deliberative a theoretical framework by Todd Graham and Tamara Witschge is being used.One of the online forums in this study is focused on Swedish politics and the other one is focused on general discussions about any topic. Four topics are examined, and they are the same in both online forums. The topics have been categorized as subjects that are either traditional politics or personal politics. Discussions about nuclear power and political parties are considered traditional, whereas discussions about drugs and legislation for sexual consent are considered personal.The findings show that in the general online forum the topic being discussed matters. Discussions categorized as personal politics matched the conditions of deliberative communication more than discussions that were about traditional politics. In the political forum the subject did not matter, they were all equal in terms of deliberative communication. The forums are similar in terms of deliberative communication if you exclude the topics that were about traditional politics from the general online forum.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-64810 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Lindroth, Rasmus |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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