This episode ranges from the democratic potential of the online world to an examination of several particular cases.

Dr Dannica Fleuß and her fellow researchers looked at three different online spaces and evaluated them for the quality and forms of their communication. Do different online spaces in a deliberative system affect how people talk and reason? Dannica Fleuß discusses these findings and more in this episode.

Different Arenas, Different Deliberative Quality? Using a Systemic Framework to Evaluate Online Deliberation on Immigration Policy in Germany by Katharina Esau Dannica Fleuß and Sarah‐Michelle Nienhaus. Here is the link to this article, which is open-access.

Music acknowledgement.