Communication, participation and online deliberation: an analysis of “Vote na Web”

Author(s)

Daniele Ferreira Seridório

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Artes. 2016-10-17.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Arquitetura. Artes. Comunicação e Design. Bauru
• Defense date: 2016-08-22
• Advisor: Caroline Kraus Luvizotto

Abstract

The expansion of the online connection had come to the public spaces meeting and took them to online forums, sites and other digital interactive platforms. From deliberation process it was shaped a new concept, online deliberation. This research aims to reflect about online deliberation and the communicative and interactive process that it involves, applying to the analyses of the messages to be able to determinate the quality of an online deliberation space. The object of the study is the website “Vote na Web”, which principal propose is to approximate Brazilian citizens to the deliberation area that is the National Legislative Assembly. The investigation was based in the description of the website's architecture tools, the quality of the abstract and the debate around the law project 7633/2014 presented in the website. The categories that we used were: inclusivity, mutual respect, rational provision, topic, reciprocity and reflexivity. This study indicated that the website “Vote na Web” it is a participative arena, but not deliberative. The deliberative potential it is in allowing that people participate around as specific topic, but this participation doesn’t achieve deliberation level, most of the users talk alone, without going deep into reciprocity and reflexivity. “Vote na Web” offers a complementation to the topics that are in discussion in the public sphere. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/12307-6 - Online deliberation and political participation in information society: the potencial of the website Vote na web
• Grantee: Daniele Ferreira Seridório
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master