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Designing Systems that Support the Blogosphere for Deliberative Discourse
2010
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
Lorne Olfman was the accepting Senior Editor. Web 2.0 has great potential to serve as a public sphere (Habermas, 1974; Habermas, 1989 ) -a distributed arena of voices where all who want to do so can participate. A well-functioning public sphere is important for pluralistic decision-making at many levels, ranging from small organizations to society at large. In this paper, we analyze the capability of the blogosphere in its current form to support such a role. This analysis leads to the
doi:10.17705/1thci.00016
fatcat:endr5kxeivegrmqonpccx4eame