CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Oermen, Jacob |
|---|---|
| Title | The Issue Network as a Site of Politics: Deliberating the Danish Asylum Issue on the Internet |
| Summary | Through an analysis of the Danish asylum issue on the Internet this dissertation seeks to test how issue network analysis can be applied to studies of political deliberation online. The analysis is conducted firstly, through a network analysis of the actors deliberating the issue online and secondly, in a deeper assessment of the various claims and framing processes that the actors present in the network. The network analysis finds evidence that the interlinking between the various types of actors create a deliberative space online around the asylum issue, but that the interaction largely takes the form of coalition or policy network. In the analysis of the claims making and issue framing this evidence is supported by findings that the antagonistic actors present contentious and adversary statements within the same sub-issues. In that sense the issue network proves to be a site of political deliberation. The subsequent discussion of the results shows that the there are some major shortcoming in applying multi-website approaches, like issue network analysis, to the study of political deliberation on the Internet and that further research is needed to establish how the Internet can function as a site of politics. |
| Supervisor | Milan, Stefania |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/oermen_jacob.pdf |
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