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Sara Douglas
Researcher at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Publications - 13
Citations - 346
Sara Douglas is an academic researcher from University of Hawaii at Manoa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Public sphere. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 13 publications receiving 302 citations. Previous affiliations of Sara Douglas include University of Hawaii.
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Social media supporting political deliberation across multiple public spheres: towards depolarization
TL;DR: It is found that social media supported the interactional dimensions of deliberative democracy--the interaction with media and the interaction between people.
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Designing Political Deliberation Environments to Support Interactions in the Public Sphere
TL;DR: Through evolving requirements generation, a new political deliberation technology is developed, dubbed Poli, which is an integrated social media environment with the potential to enable more effective interactions in the public sphere.
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Hybrid media consumption: how tweeting during a televised political debate influences the vote decision
TL;DR: This study studied how tweeting, or passively observing Twitter during a debate, influenced affect, recall and vote decision, and found that people who actively tweeted changed their voting choice to reflect the majority sentiment on Twitter.
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Navigating Imagined Audiences: Motivations for Participating in the Online Public Sphere
TL;DR: A qualitative interview study of social media use by politically interested citizens of the state of Hawaii identified a number of motivations including understanding different viewpoints, formulating perspectives, engaging in positive discourse, repairing Hawaii's image, increasing political awareness and improving civic engagement.
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Political discourse on social networking sites: Sentiment, in-group/out-group orientation and rationality
TL;DR: The news feeds of two U.S. politicians' Facebook sites were examined across 22 months leading up to an election in order to explore changes in social-network-mediated public political discourse over time, with a complex flow of attention between in-group and out-group concerns.