Facilitating personal deliberation online: Immediate effects of two ConsiderIt variations.
A healthy democracy requires cognizant citizens who are willing and able to make informed decisions about political issues. ConsiderIt is a software application aimed at facilitating and encouraging personal deliberation. This article reports on a pretest–posttest experimental study ( N = 36) into t...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 51; pp. 461 - 470 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Oct2015 Part A
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