Machine Learning for Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Discussions and Participatory Processes: A Survey

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Hauptverfasser: Behrendt, Maike, Wagner, Stefan Sylvius, Weinmann, Carina, Bormann, Marike, Warne, Mira, Harmeling, Stefan
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author Behrendt, Maike
Wagner, Stefan Sylvius
Weinmann, Carina
Bormann, Marike
Warne, Mira
Harmeling, Stefan
author_facet Behrendt, Maike
Wagner, Stefan Sylvius
Weinmann, Carina
Bormann, Marike
Warne, Mira
Harmeling, Stefan
contents Political online participation in the form of discussing political issues and exchanging opinions among citizens is gaining importance with more and more formats being held digitally. To come to a decision, a thorough discussion and consideration of opinions and a civil exchange of arguments, which is defined as the act of deliberation, is desirable. The quality of discussions and participation processes in terms of their deliberativeness highly depends on the design of platforms and processes. To facilitate online communication for both participants and initiators, machine learning methods offer a lot of potential. In this work we want to showcase which issues occur in political online discussions and how machine learning can be used to counteract these issues and enhance deliberation. We conduct a literature review to (i) identify tasks that could potentially be solved by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to enhance individual aspects of deliberation in political online discussions, (ii) provide an overview on existing tools and platforms that are equipped with AI support and (iii) assess how well AI support currently works and where challenges remain.
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spellingShingle Machine Learning for Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Discussions and Participatory Processes: A Survey
Behrendt, Maike
Wagner, Stefan Sylvius
Weinmann, Carina
Bormann, Marike
Warne, Mira
Harmeling, Stefan
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Political online participation in the form of discussing political issues and exchanging opinions among citizens is gaining importance with more and more formats being held digitally. To come to a decision, a thorough discussion and consideration of opinions and a civil exchange of arguments, which is defined as the act of deliberation, is desirable. The quality of discussions and participation processes in terms of their deliberativeness highly depends on the design of platforms and processes. To facilitate online communication for both participants and initiators, machine learning methods offer a lot of potential. In this work we want to showcase which issues occur in political online discussions and how machine learning can be used to counteract these issues and enhance deliberation. We conduct a literature review to (i) identify tasks that could potentially be solved by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to enhance individual aspects of deliberation in political online discussions, (ii) provide an overview on existing tools and platforms that are equipped with AI support and (iii) assess how well AI support currently works and where challenges remain.
title Machine Learning for Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Discussions and Participatory Processes: A Survey
topic Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02533